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
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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2025
Djordje Atanackovic, MD
CD229-targeting CAR T cells as a novel cellular immunotherapy for T cell...
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2025
Chonghui Cheng, MD, PhD
mRNA-based immunotherapy for targeting triple-negative breast cancer
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2025
Britta Will, PhD
Genetic subtype-agnostic differentiation therapy for patients with myeloid malignancies
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2025
Christina Curtis, PhD
Harnessing hereditary and immune interplay for cancer interception
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2025
Ulrich Steidl, MD, PhD
Understanding and Targeting Transcriptional Noise in Chemotherapy Resistance in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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2025
Jeffrey Magee, MD, PhD
Sphingolipid transport as a novel therapeutic vulnerability in high-risk pediatric AML
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2025
Toshiro Hara, PhD
Decoding Transcriptional and Environmental Regulation of Infiltrative Growth in Pediatric Diffuse Midline...
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2025
Antony Michealraj Kulandai Manuvel, PhD
Integrated epigenetic and metabolic regulation reveal targetable vulnerabilities in pediatric ependymomas
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