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.

2020
Ronny Bell, PhD
Population Health Navigation: A Comprehensive Intervention to Increase Clinical Trial Participation
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2020
Kristen Whitaker, MD
Utilizing Optimized Patient Education Tools to Support Clinical Trial Enrollment of African...
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2020
Angelique Richardson, MD, PhD
A Clinical Trial Education Program Aimed at Increasing the Enrollment of African-American...
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2020
Hatem Soliman, MD
Implementation of a tailored mobile application to improve clinical trial engagement in...
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2020
G. Elizabeth Pluhar, DVM, PhD & Michael Graner, PhD
Elucidating the immunosuppressive mechanism(s) of tumor vascular endothelial cells to develop immunotherapy...
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2020
John Perry, PhD
Harnessing anti-cancer immunity to vaccinate against treatment failure and relapse
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2020
Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, FACP
Exploiting KMT2 as a Predictive Marker and Therapeutic Target in Advanced Gastric...
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2020
Jessica Lawrence, DVM & Daniel Vallera, PhD
Development of novel radiotherapy-immunotherapy approaches to target sarcomas
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2020
Pavani Chalasani, MD
Campaign to Improve Access to Clinical Trials
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2020
Adam Bass, MD
New Targets and Therapies for Chromosomal Instability Underlying Gastric Cancer
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2020
Timothy Yap, MD, PhD
Program of Clinical Trials targeting the DNA Damage Response (DDR)
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2020
Alice Bertaina, MD, PhD
A new program of adaptive immunotherapy after alpha/beta T-cell depleted haploidentical hematopoietic...
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2020
Zhaoming Wang, PhD
Social epigenetic pathways and disparities of adverse health outcomes in adult survivors...
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2020
Ulrike Peters, PhD
Evaluation of the biological basis for disparities in colorectal outcomes among Alaska...
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2020
Jennifer Doherty, PhD, MS
Influence of comorbidities and inflammatory biomarkers in disparities in ovarian cancer treatment,...
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2020
Jun Qi, PhD
SMARCA4 degraders as targeted therapeutics for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
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