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
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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2020
Abhishek Chakraborty, PhD
Chromatin Dysfunction Identifies Metabolic Regulators as Potential Therapeutic Targets in Renal Cancer
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2020
Mariana Byndloss, DVM, PhD
Obesogenic diet links epithelial dysfunction, intestinal dysbiosis and colorectal cancer
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2020
Aniko Vigh, M.D.
Enhancing Clinical Trial Awareness and Outreach for Minority Patients in Oncology Research
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2020
Edward Prochownik, M.D., Ph.D.
Patient-Derived NFE2L2/NRF2 Mutations Promote Aggressive Forms of Hepatoblastoma
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2020
Lluis Morey, Ph.D.
LSD1/coREST Inhibition Overcomes Resistance to Endocrine Therapies in Breast Cancer
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2020
Mary Markiewicz, Ph.D.
The effect of cytokine treatment and NKG2D ligand expression on NK cells...
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2020
Hanlee Ji, M.D.
Gastric Cancer Registry
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2019
Shane Harding, Ph.D.
Harnessing radiotherapy‐induced inflammatory signaling to improve immunotherapy and the therapeutic ratio
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