Funded Grants

The V Foundation’s grant making model ensures the most promising cancer research projects at state-of-the-art facilities around the country are funded. Cancer research grants are awarded to innovative researchers with the most cutting-edge ideas on how to improve cancer diagnosis methods, prevent cancer recurrences or defeat cancer. 100% of direct donations are used to fund projects we identify as the most likely to help those diagnosed with cancer.

2023
Carrie Lee, MD
Use of Multimedia Educational Tools to Advance Equity in Cancer Clinical Trial...
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2023
Tracy Crane, PhD
Lifestyle Intervention for Food and Exercise to improve treatment response in patients...
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2023
Wendy Cohn, PhD
Increasing early detection of lung cancer screening by increasing awareness and uptake...
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2023
Ashwani Rajput, MD, FACS
Breast Cancer Prevention and Education in DC's Wards 7 & 8
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2023
Julia Carnevale, MD
Engineering Cutting-Edge Claudin18.2 CAR-T Cells for the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Malignancies
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2023
Lesley Jarvis, MD, PhD
Translation of Ultra-High Dose Rate (FLASH) Radiotherapy to improve clinical outcomes
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2023
Sita Kugel, PhD
Targeting CDK7 in basal subtype pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
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2023
Christina Glytsou, PhD
Mitochondrial dynamics adaptations in drug-resistant acute myeloid leukemia
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2023
Christina Towers, PhD
Uncovering Novel Metabolic Susceptibilities in Pancreatic Cancer
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2023
Ly Vu, PhD
Defining a high-resolution and functional map of m6A RNA epitranscriptome in normal...
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2023
Sarah Adams, MD
VSTM5 as a novel treatment predictive biomarker for CTLA4 immune therapy in...
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2023
Kelly Bolton, MD, PhD
Investigating the use of trilaciclib as a novel therapy to prevent clonal...
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2023
Eva Hernando-Monge, PhD
Novel Metabolic Adaptions as Targets in Melanoma Brain Metastasis
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2023
Juliana Hofstatter Azambuja, PhD
MALT1 as a therapeutic target in H3K27M-mutant Diffuse Midline Glioma
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2023
Sarah Johnstone, MD, PhD
Architectural protein mutations rewire ovarian cancer genomes
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2023
Katherine Tossas, PhD, MS
Elucidating the influence of the vaginal microbiome and stress-response pathways on racial...
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