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
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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2020
Christine Pratilas, MD
Targeting oncogenic HRAS as a novel strategy in pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma *The Translational...
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2020
Robbie Majzner, MD
Targeting GD2 and CD47 to Unleash the Innate Immune System in DIPG
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2020
Ian Davis, MD, PhD
Combining cellular and epigenetic therapies to treat pediatric solid tumors
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2020
Andrea Viale, MD
Contribution of tumor heterogeneity in eliciting response to the immune system
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2020
Stefani Spranger, PhD
Solving the problem of heterogeneous antigen presentation to enhance anti-tumor immunity
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2020
Charles Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, MCHES
iBeat CRC: A Community-based Intervention to Increase Early-onset Colorectal Cancer Awareness using...
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2020
Justin Perry, PhD, MA
Hypoxia conditioning of phagocytes programs the pro-tumorigenic breast cancer microenvironment
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2020
Adam Palmer, PhD
Understanding and optimizing curative combination therapy for Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas
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