Grants Awarded in 2015

These exceptional researchers were all funded by the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund.

Reka Albert B.A., M.A., Ph.D. & Jorge Gomez Tejeda Zanudo, Ph.D.

Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute

Steven Altschuler, Ph.D. & Xiaoxiao Sun, Ph.D.

UCSF/Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Gurinder Atwal, Ph.D. & Raditya Utama, Ph.D.

Cold Spring Harbor

Terry Badger, Ph.D., RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN

University of Arizona

Steven Barthel, Ph.D.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jose Baselga, M.D., Ph.D. & Guotai Xu, Ph.D.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Luis Batista, Ph.D.

St. Louis Children's Hospital - Washington University

John Cavanagh, Ph.D.

NC State University Cancer Therapeutics Training Program

Grant Challen, Ph.D.

Siteman Cancer Center

Chun Ju Chang, Ph.D.

Purdue University Center for Cancer Research

Aude Chapuis, M.D.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Rebecca Chin, Ph.D.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Robert Coleman, M.D.

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Michelle Monje Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.

Stanford Cancer Institute

Dustin Deming, M.D.

Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center

Robert C. Doebele, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Colorado Denver

Martine Extermann, M.D., Ph.D.

Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Felix Feng, M.D.

University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

James Ford, M.D.

Stanford University School of Medicine

Steven Grant, M.D.

Virginia Commonwealth University

Benjamin Greenbaum, Ph.D. & Alexander “Sasha” Solovyov, Ph.D.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Benjamin Greenbaum, Ph.D. & Alexander Solovyov, Ph.D.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Kira Gritsman, M.D., Ph.D.

Albert Einstein Cancer Center

Stephen Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., MPH

USC Norris Cancer Hospital

Alexander Guimaraes, M.D., Ph.D.

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute

W. Clay Gustafson, M.D., Ph.D.

Benioff's Children's Hospital (UCSF)

Christy Hagan, Ph.D.

University of Kansas Cancer Center

Aaron Hata, M.D., Ph.D. & Heidie Frisco Cabanos, Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Andrew Hsieh, M.D.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Peter Lee, M.D. & Larry Wong, Ph.D.

Anthony Letai, M.D., Ph.D. & Joan Montero, Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Herbert Levine, Ph.D. & Xuefei Li, Ph.D.

Rice University

Ross Levine, M.D., Friederike Pastore, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Corinne Linardic, M.D., Ph.D.

Duke Cancer Institute

Piro Lito, M.D., Ph.D.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Christine Lovly, Ph.D.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Amanda Lund, Ph.D.

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute

Sanford Markowitz, M.D., Ph.D.

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Matthew Meyerson, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Shakeel Modak, M.D. & Brian Kushner, M.D.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Raymond Moellering, Ph.D.

University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center

Branden Moriarity, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota, Division of Pediatrics

Muhammed Murtaza, M.D., Ph.D.

Translational Genomics Research Institute (Tgen)

Paul Northcott, Ph.D.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Peter O’Dwyer, M.D. & Yuval Elhanati, Ph.D.

Perelman School of Medicine for the University of Pennsylvania

Akinyemi Ojesina, M.D., Ph.D.

UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center

Hideho Okada, M.D., Ph.D.

Benioff's Children's Hospital (UCSF)

Richard Possemato, Ph.D.

New York University School of Medicine

Raul Rabadan, Ph.D., Junfei Zhao, Ph.D.

Columbia University

City of Hope National Medical Center

Jeremy Reiter, M.D., Ph.D.

Benioff's Children's Hospital (UCSF)

Miguel Rivera, M.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Harlan Robbins, Ph.D. & Miriam Gutschow, Ph.D.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Navid Sadeghi, M.D., MS

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Andrea Schietinger, Ph.D.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Hatem Soliman, M.D.

Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Cullen Taniguchi, M.D., Ph.D.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

David Ting, M.D. & Mihir Rajurkar, Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Jose Trevino, M.D.

University of Florida Health Cancer Center

Ravindra Uppaluri, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Victor van Berkel, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Louisville

Nikhil Wagle, M.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Nikhil Wagle, M.D. & Pingping Mao, Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Michael Walsh, M.D.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Michael Weber, Ph.D.

University of Virginia

Daniel Wechsler, M.D.

Duke Cancer Institute

Ralph Weissleder, M.D., Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Jedd Wolchok, M.D., Ph.D. & John Moral, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Jun Yang, Ph.D.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Katherine Yeager, Ph.D., RN

Emory University

Clare Yu, Ph.D. & Juliana “Julie” Wortman

University of California - Irvine

Qing Zhang, Ph.D

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Shizhen (Jane) Zhu, M.D., Ph.D.

Mayo Clinic Children's Research Center (Minnesota)