The following new grants were awarded to JCCC members, announced in October 2012:
Principal Investigator:
Bower, Julienne
Sponsor Name: Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Award Title: Stress, Inflammation and Breast Cancer: Role of Tumor Promoting Macrophages
Principal Investigator: Braun, Jonathan
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases
Award Title: Mechanisms of Intestinal Inflammation-Associated Systemic Genotoxicity
Principal Investigator: Chiou, Pei-Yu
Sponsor Name: National Science Foundation
Award Title: Optoelectronic Tweezers on Sapphire for Compact and High Throughput Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter
Principal Investigator: Cloughesy, Timothy
Sponsor Name: Genentech, Inc.
Award Title: Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Phase II Study Evaluating the Efficacy & Safety of Onartuzumab in Combination with Bevacizumab or Onartuzumab Monotherapy in Patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma
Principal Investigator: Crooks, Gay
Sponsor Name: American Society of Hematology
Award Title: Mechanisms Governing Hematopoiesis Versus Cardiac Fate Specification in the Embryonic Endothelium
Principal Investigator: Dorigo, Oliver
Sponsor Name: Sanofi-Aventis Group (including Sanofi Synthelabo, Aventis Pasteu)
Award Title: Phase 2 Study of Xl147 (Sar245408) in Subjects with Advance or Recurrent Endometrial Carcinoma
Principal Investigator: Dubinett, Steven
Sponsor Name: UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
Award Title: Grant: Snail Regulation of Sparc in Lung Cancer Pathogenesis
Principal Investigator: Ellingson, Benjamin
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer institute
Award Title: Cell invasion, Motility, and Proliferation Level Estimate Maps in Gliomas
Principal Investigator: Ellingson, Benjamin
Sponsor Name: UC/Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC)
Award Title: Probabilistic Radiographic Atlas of Molecular and Interventional Phenotypes in Human Glioblastoma
Principal Investigator: Ganz, Patricia
Sponsor Name: Washington University
Award Title: Effect of Weight Loss on Bone Health in Post-Menopausal Breast Cancer Survivors
Principal Investigator: Garon, Edward
Sponsor Name: National Lung Cancer Partnership
Award Title: Lung Cancer Mutational Consortium
Principal Investigator: Graeber, Thomas
Sponsor Name: UC/Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC)
Award Title: Co-Targeting Genomic Instability and Energy Metabolism in Breast Cancer
Principal Investigator: Graeber, Thomas
Sponsor Name: Concern Foundation
Award Title: Signaling Changes that Confer Resistance to Braf-Targeted Melanoma Therapy
Principal Investigator: Kabbinavar, Fairooz
Sponsor Name: Lo Therapeutics, Inc.
Award Title: Phase II Trial of Nrx 194204 in Castration and Taxane-Reistant Prostate Cancer
Principal Investigator: Li, Gang
Sponsor Name: National Science Foundation
Award Title: Materials World Network: Novel Fullerenes as the N-Type Materials in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics
Principal Investigator: Maliski, Sally
Sponsor Name: NIH/National institute of Nursing Research
Award Title: Chang, Nancy Takatsuka:Understanding Barriers to Self-Management Among Latino Adolescents with Type 2 DM
Principal Investigator: Memarzadeh, Sanaz
Sponsor Name: UC/Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC)
Award Title: Site Specific Role of Progesterone anti-Tumor Actions in Endometrial Cancer
Principal Investigator: Mikkola, Hanna
Sponsor Name: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (Leukemia Society of America)
Award Title: Transcriptional Mechanisms Establishing Hemogenic Endothelium
Principal Investigator: Pajonk, Frank
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute
Award Title: Erythropoietin and Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Principal Investigator: Ponce, Ninez
Sponsor Name: Public Health Institute
Award Title: California Health Interview Survey (Chis) 2013-2014
Principal Investigator: Ponce, Ninez
Sponsor Name: East Bay Community Foundation
Award Title: California Health Interview Survey (Chis)- Kaiser Northern
Principal Investigator: Ponce, Ninez
Sponsor Name: Blue Shield of Cal Res & Education Foundation
Award Title: California Health Interview Survey (Chis) 2011-2012
Principal Investigator: Rettig, Matthew
Sponsor Name: Medivation, Inc.
Award Title: Strive: Multicenter Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind, Efficacy and Safety Study of Enzalutamide versus Bicalutamide in Men with Prostate Cancer Who Have Failed Primary androgen Deprivation Therapy
Principal Investigator: Schiestl, Robert
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Award Title: Mechanisms of Intestinal Imflammation-Associated Systemic Genotoxicity
Principal Investigator: Sheng, Ke
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute
Award Title: Mechanistic Model to Derive Lung Tumor Motion from Whole Surface Tracking
Principal Investigator: Sun, Ren
Sponsor Name: Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
Award Title: Targeting the Beta Cell
Principal Investigator: Ponce, Ninez
Sponsor Name: Blue Shield of Cal Res & Education Foundation
Award Title: California Health Interview Survey (Chis) 2011-2012
Principal Investigator: Van Dam, Robert
Sponsor Name: NIH Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering
Award Title: Microliter Radiosynthesizer For Producing High Specific Activity Pet Ligands
Principal Investigator: Wadehra, Madhuri
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute
Award Title: Using Emp2 For Image Guided Drug Delivery For Breast Cancer
Principal Investigator: Waschek, James
Sponsor Name: National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Award Title: Neuropeptide Pacap/Vpac2 Receptor Signaling in the Regulation of Natural Treg Expansion in Eae
Principal Investigator: Wiley, Dorothy
Sponsor Name: Johns Hopkins University
Award Title: Center for Prevention and Early Intervention (Oral HPV in Early Stage HIV)
Principal Investigator: Witte, Owen
Sponsor Name: Cal Institute For Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
Award Title: Trop2 Dependent and Independent Mechanisms of Self-Renewal in Human Cancer Stem Cells
Principal Investigator: Wong, David
Sponsor Name: Colgate Palmolive Company
Award Title: Salivary Biomarker Develpment for Gingivitis
Principal Investigator: Ponce, Ninez
Sponsor Name: Blue Shield of Cal Res & Education Foundation
Award Title: California Health Interview Survey (Chis) 2011-2012
Principal Investigator: Yancey, Antronette
Sponsor Name: DHHS/Centers for Disease Control (including CDC Foundation)
Award Title: UCLA Healthy-by-Default (HBD) Reach Project