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
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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2020
Faiyaz Notta, PhD
Impact of allelic imbalances in mutant KRAS on pancreatic cancer progression and...
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2020
Samuel McBrayer, PhD
Targeting Pyrimidine Nucleotide Metabolism for IDH Mutant Glioma Therapy *The research project...
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2020
Chao Lu, PhD
Targeting chromatin co-dependency for MLL-rearranged leukemia
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2020
Genevieve Kendall, PhD
Zebrafish Modeling of Pediatric Sarcoma
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2020
Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD
Mechanisms of liver metastasis and associated resistance to immunotherapy *The research project...
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2020
Sahand Hormoz, Ph.D.
Tracing the differentiation trajectories and lineage histories of individual cancer cells *The...
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2020
Shin-Heng Chiou, PhD
Deep profiling of specific T cell responses in long-term survivors with pancreatic...
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2020
Aadel Chaudhuri, MD, PhD
Liquid biopsy analysis of tumor-infiltrating leukocytes for early immunotherapy response prediction
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