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
William Hwang, MD, PhD
Dissecting sensory nerve contributions in pancreatic inflammation and malignancy *The research project...
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2025
Robert Bowman, PhD
Reprogramming Differentiation Trajectories to Overcome FLT3 Inhibitor Resistance in AML *The research...
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2024
Gelareh Zadeh, MD, PhD, FRCS(C)
Building Algorithms to Predict Response to Radiation in Meningiomas using Tumor and...
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2024
Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, MD, PhD
Targeted Therapy for BRIDGE DC— Addressing Therapeutic Resistance with Cancer Genomics through...
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2024
Marjory Charlot, MD, MPH, MSc
Tailoring Clinical Trial Navigation to Increase Enrollment of Black Patients with Gynecologic...
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2024
Jiong Li, Ph.D.
FOSL1 degradation overcomes cisplatin resistance in HNSCC
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2024
Nadine Barrett, PhD, MA, MS
Understanding and Addressing Cancer Disparities Among American Indians in North Carolina: Gastric...
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2024
Omotomilayo Akinyemiju, PhD
Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions to Enhance Equity in Oncology Clinical Trials
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2024
Jianguo Tao, PhD
Defining mechanisms of therapy resistance to CDK9 inhibitor (CDK9i) treatment in aggressive...
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2024
Shiri Gur-Cohen, PhD
Decoding Stem Cell-Niche Dependencies in Driving Tumor Evolution and Therapy Resistance
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2024
Nadine Barrett, PhD, MA, MS
Population Health Navigation: A Comprehensive Intervention to Increase Clinical Trial Participation
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2024
Corina Antal, PhD
Uncovering novel post-transcriptional vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer
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2024
Noam Auslander, PhD
Fecal microbial biomarkers of immunotherapy benefit and adverse events in melanoma
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2024
Gina Ogilvie, MD
FOCAL MOMENTUM (MicrObiome Monitoring for ElimiNaTion of Cervical Cancer) Study
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2024
Livia Schiavinato Eberlin, PhD
Transforming Cancer Surgery with Medical Mass Spectrometry Technology *One exceptional Adult Translational...
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2024
Xueqiu (Chu) Lin, PhD
Mapping and modeling oncogenic non-coding networks for colorectal cancer risk prediction
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