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.

2017
Peter Shaw, M.D.
Improving Oncology Clinical Trial Enrollment in Children and Young Adults through Education
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2017
Miguel Rivera, M.D.
Function and regulation of the VRK1 kinase in Ewing sarcoma
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2017
Helen Patterson
2017 Mission Grant -Colon Cancer Screening and Patient Navigation
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2017
Akinyemi Ojesina, M.D., Ph.D.
Metatranscriptomic Biomarkers for Predicting Tumor Recurrence
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2017
Jennifer Wilson, M.D.
Cancer Screening and Patient Navigation in Napa Valley
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2017
Shannon Maude, M.D., Ph.D.
Combination therapy with immune check point blockade to overcome CAR T cell...
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2017
Mary Markiewicz, Ph.D.
The role of NKG2D-ligand interaction between NK cells in NK cell immunotherapy
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2017
Hui Li, PhD
Extended funding- Gene Fusions in Rhabdomyosarcoma
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2017
Alisa B. Lee Sherick, M.D.
Targeting efferocytosis in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia
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2017
Andrea LaCroix, Ph.D.
Wisdom Study (Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of Risk)
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2017
Edward Kim, M.D., FACP
Dynamic functional assessment of the host (vs tumor) immune system in patients...
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2017
Mike Kastan, M.D.
Canine Comparative Oncology Consortium between Duke Cancer Institute and North Carolina State...
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2017
Hanlee Ji, M.D.
Gastric Cancer Registry
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2017
Andrew Hsieh, M.D.
Dynamic protein synthesis control in prostate cancer
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2017
Christy Hagan, Ph.D.
Progesterone Receptor Promotes Inflammation in Breast Cancer
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2017
Nester Esnaola, M.D., M.P.H.
Clinical Trials: Know Your Options
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