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.

2025
Jacalyn Rosenblatt, MD
Novel Combination of a Personalized Dendritic Cell /Myeloma Vaccine and BCMA Directed...
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2025
Roger Lo, MD, PhD
Strategies to Prevent Relapses on Cancer Therapeutics *One exceptional Translational application is...
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2025
Kris Wood, PhD
Eradicating residual non-small cell lung cancers by targeting their PKN2-dependent survival
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2025
Mario Suvà, MD, PhD
A chemical proteomics drug discovery campaign for glioblastoma
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2025
Andrea Kasinski, PhD
From microRNA biology to clinical breakthroughs: advancing microRNAs as anti-cancer agents
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2025
Jessica Sun, MD
Expanding Clinical Trial Access for Pediatric and Young Adult Oncology Patients at...
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2025
Lewis Chodosh, MD, PhD
[18F]NaF-PET to Advance a Novel Neoadjuvant Therapy Approach to Prevent Breast Cancer...
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2025
Kyle Payne, PhD
Interrogating the impact of cellular stress signaling on tumor immunogenicity
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2025
Diana Hargreaves, PhD
Preclinical and Clinical studies of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy in SWI/SNF Altered...
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2025
Agnel Sfeir, PhD
Interfering with Mutagenic DNA Repair to Overcome Resistance to Cancer Therapies
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2025
Todd Fehniger, MD, PhD
Translating CAR and mini protein engineered memory NK cells as cancer therapy
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2025
Yuxuan Miao, PhD
Dissect and Overcome the HPV-associated Immune Resistance in Head and Neck Cancer
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2025
Chrystal Paulos, PhD
Harnessing the inducible costimulator in Th17 TIL to treat ICB-resistant tumors
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2025
William Freed-Pastor, MD, PhD
Accelerating cryptic antigen-directed therapies in pancreatic cancer
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2025
Andrew Brenner, MD PhD
Biological effects of Rhenium Obisbemeda on Cancer and the Tumor Microenvironment
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2025
Jessica Thaxton, PhD, MsCR
The Cellular Response to Stress as a Mechanism of ICI Resistance
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