The following new grants were awarded to JCCC members in September 2011:

Principal Investigator: Carolyn D. Britten

Sponsor Name: Pfizer Inc. (including Warner-Lamber and Parke-Davis)

Award Title: "A Multi-Arm Phase 1 Dose Escalation Study of the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of the Dual Pi3K/Mtor Inhibitors Pf-04691502 and Pf-05212384 in Ocmbination With Experimental or Approved Anticancer Agents in Patinets with Advanced Cancer"

Principal Investigator: Pinchas Cohen

Sponsor Name: Glenn Foundation for Medical Research

Award Title: "Understanding the Role of the Mitochondrial Peptide Humanin in Aging and Longevity"

Principal Investigator: Pinchas Cohen

Sponsor Name: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 

Award Title: "Plasma Mitochondrial Peptide assays as Biomarkers of Environmental Toxin Exposure"

Principal Investigator: Heather R. Christofk

Sponsor Name: NIH/Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health

Award Title: "Regulation of the Warburg Effect in Cancer"

Principal Investigator: Patricia A. Ganz

Sponsor Name: DHHS/Centers for Disease Control (including CDC Foundation)

Award Title: "Enhancing Outcomes In Young Breast Cancer Survivors: A Program of the UCLA-Livestrong Survivorship Center of Excellence"

Principal Investigator: Steve Jacobsen

Sponsor Name: National Science Foundation 

Award Title: "Epigenectic Control of DNA Replication in Arabidopsis"

Principal Investigator: Leeka Kheifets

Sponsor Name: DHHS/Centers for Disease Control (including CDC Foundation)

Award Title: "Assessing Occupational Electric Shocks, Magnetic Fields and ALS"

Principal Investigator: Patrick Kupelian

Sponsor Name: Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Frmly Varian Associates, Inc.)

Award Title: "Radiation Therapy Registry"

Principal Investigator: Linda Liau

Sponsor Name: Miles for Hope

Award Title: "Optimizing Dendritic Cell Vaccination for Low Grade Glioma Patients"

Principal Investigator: William Lowry

Sponsor Name: Cal Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)

Award Title: "Molecular Determinants of Accurate Differentiation from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"

Principal Investigator: Otoniel M. Martinez

Sponsor Name: UC/Institute for Mexico and the United States (Mexus)

Award Title: "Regulation of Kruppel-Like Factor 4 Expression Through Yin-Yang 1 Activation in Non-Hodgkin'S B-Cell Lymphomas"

Principal Investigator: Dinesh S. Rao

Sponsor Name: Tower Cancer Research Foundation

Award Title: "The Role of lincRNAS in B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia Pathogenesis and Diagnosis"

Principal Investigator: Caius G. Radu

Sponsor Name: NIH Natl Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering/University of Illinois

Award Title: "Molecular Imaging of Cell-Based Therapeutics Using an Engineered Human Enzyme"

Principal Investigator: Hsian-Rong Tseng

Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute

Award Title: "Advanced Development of an Integrated CTC Enrichment Technology"

Principal Investigator: Hong Wu

Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute

Award Title: "Influences of the Microenvironment on Cancer Stem Cells"

Principal Investigator: Lily Wu

Sponsor Name: U.S. Army/Medical Research Acquisition Activity

Award Title: "Co-Targeting Bone Marrow-Derived Myeloid Cells: Toward Rationally Designed and Effective Combination Therapy for Ovarian Cancer"