Grants Awarded in 2018

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

Claudio Alarcon, Ph.D.

Yale Cancer Center

Olga Anczukow, Ph.D.

The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center

Carey Anders, M.D. & Ben Vincent, M.D.

Collaboration between UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center & Duke Cancer Center

David Ashley, M.D., Ph.D.

Duke Cancer Institute

Nabeel Bardeesy, Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Nadine Barrett, Ph.D.

Duke Cancer Institute

Ami Bhatt, M.D., Ph.D.

Stanford Cancer Institute

Collin Blakely, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California- San Francisco

Paula Bos, Ph.D.

Massey Cancer Center

Yanis Boumber, M.D., Ph.D.

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Scott Bratman, M.D., Ph.D.

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

James Brugarolas, M.D., Ph.D.

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Pavani Chalasani, M.D.

University of Arizona Cancer Center

Qing Chen, M.D., Ph.D.

The Wistar Institute

Iok In (Christine) Chio, Ph.D.

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

Karlene Cimprich, Ph.D.

Stanford Cancer Institute

David Cohn, M.D.

The Ohio State University

Teresa Davoli, Ph.D.

New York University School of Medicine

Michael Deel, M.D.

Duke Cancer Institute

Aniruddha Deshpande, Ph.D.

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Courtney DiNardo, M.D., MSCE

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Mingye Feng, Ph.D.

City of Hope National Medical Center

Alan Friedman, M.D.

Sidney Kimmel CCC/John Hopkins Medicine

Judy Garber, M.D., MPH

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Roger Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Malachi Griffith, Ph.D.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Andras Heczey, M.D.

Texas Children's Hospital

H. Courtney Hodges, Ph.D.

Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center

Baoli Hu, Ph.D.

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (UPMC)

Tony Huang, Ph.D.

New York University School of Medicine

Hanlee Ji, M.D.

Stanford University

Michael Kastan, M.D., Ph.D.

Canine Comparative Oncology Consortium between Duke Cancer Institute and North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine

In-Kwon Kim, Ph.D.

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Justin Kline, M.D.

University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sita Kugel, Ph.D.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Carrie Lee, M.D.

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Daniel Lee, M.D.

University of Virginia School of Medicine

R. Coleman Lindsley, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Pengda Liu, Ph.D.

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Zhijie (Jason) Liu, Ph.D.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Roger Lo, M.D., Ph.D.

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Jens Lohr, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

John Maciejowski, Ph.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Aimee Mackey, M.D.

Oschner Health System

Nicola Mason, DVM, Ph.D. & Dana Clarke, VMD, DACECC

School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Selma Masri, Ph.D.

University of California- Irvine

George Miller, M.D.

Perlmutter Cancer Center

Jaime Modiano, Ph.D., D.V.M.

Masonic Cancer Center

Sabine Mueller, M.D., Ph.D.

Benioff's Children's Hospital (UCSF)

Markus Müschen, M.D., Ph.D.

City of Hope National Medical Center

Jesse Nordora, DrPH

John and Rebecca Moores Cancer Center

Mary Philip, M.D., Ph.D.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center/Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Paz Polak, Ph.D.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Seth Pollack, M.D.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, Ph.D.

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Russell Ryan, M.D.

University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

Michael Shen, Ph.D.

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

Lewis Shi, M.D., Ph.D.

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Adam Shlien, Ph.D.

Garron Family Cancer Centre at SickKids

Fiona Simpkins, M.D. & Eric Brown, Ph.D. & Payal Shah, M.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Frank Slack, Ph.D.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Hatem Soliman, M.D.

Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Jamie Spangler, Ph.D.

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at John Hopkins

Sara St. George, Ph.D.

University of Miami

Elliot Stieglitz, M.D.

University of California- San Francisco

Erica Stringer-Reasor, M.D.

UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sumit Subudhi, M.D., Ph.D.

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, Ph.D.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Margaret von Mehren, M.D.

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Robert Wechsler-Reya, Ph.D.

Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Research Institute

Jared Weiss, M.D.

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Karen Winkfield, M.D., Ph.D.

Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University

Guogin Yu, Ph.D.

University of Kansas Cancer Center

Yong Zhang, Ph.D.

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Jianjun Zhao, M.D., Ph.D.

Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Jim Zhong, M.D.

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University

Michael Zinner, M.D.

Miami Cancer Institute

Leonard Zon, M.D.

Boston Children's Hospital