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
Michael Birnbaum, Ph.D.
Profiling the antigenic basis of competing anti-tumor and immunosuppressive T cell responses...
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2017
Kexin Xu, Ph.D. & Virginia Kaklamani, M.D.
A novel therapeutic approach for endocrine resistant breast cancer by inhibiting a...
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2017
Judith Varner, Ph.D.
Novel Strategies to Break Cancer Immune Tolerance
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2017
Michael Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., FRCS
Targeting Circulating Metastatic Cells as a Novel Approach for Cancer Therapy
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2017
Ben Stanger, Ph.D., M.D.
Predicting tumor subtype by liquid biopsy
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2017
Joseph Sparano, M.D.
Closing the Door on Metastasis: A New Biomarker and Treatment Paradigm
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2017
Barbara Savoldo, Ph.D., M.D.
Exploiting the inducible Caspase9 safety switch to pharmacologically modulate CD19.CAR-T cell function...
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2017
Jeffrey Ravetch, Ph.D., M.D.
Advancing Fc-optimized anti-CD40 antibody into phase I clinical trial
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2017
Jong Park, Ph.D.
Genomic predictors of aggressive and lethal prostate cancer in African American men
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2017
Duane Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D.
Selective expansion of neoantigen-specific T cells targeting medulloblastoma
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2017
York Miller, M.D., Moumita Ghosh, Ph.D., & Jihye Kim, Ph.D.
Precision Chemoprevention of Lung Cancer
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2017
Guido Marcucci, M.D.
Immunotherapeutic targeting of IL-1-RAP to eliminate leukemia stem cells (LSC) in Acute...
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2017
Kimberly Kirkwood, M.D.
Minimally Invasive Classification of Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms
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2017
Manuel Hidalgo, Ph.D., M.D.
Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccine for Pancreatic Cancer
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2017
Alejandro Gutierrez, M.D.
JAK3 Inhibition as a Therapeutic Strategy to Reverse Chemotherapy Resistance
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2017
Timothy Graubert, M.D.
ATR Inhibition as a Therapeutic Strategy for Spliceosomal-Mutant Leukemia
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