The following new grants were awarded to JCCC members in July 2011:
Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Casillas
Sponsor Name: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Award Title: "Sbank10: Sperm Banking Among Adolescents Newly Diagnosed with Cancer, Development of a Profiling and Referral Tool"
Principal Investigator: Owen Witte
Sponsor Name: California Institute of Technology
Award Title: "Caltech-UCLA Joint Center for Translational Medicine (JCTM): Translational Acceleration Grant (TAG)"
Principal Investigator: Gary J. Schiller
Sponsor Name: Celgene Corporation
Award Title: "Multiple Myeloma Registry"
Principal Investigator: Timothy Lane
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute
Award Title: "2011 WNT Meeting"
Principal Investigator: Sven De Vos
Sponsor Name: Pharmacyclics
Award Title: "A Multicenter, Open-Label, Phase 2, Safety and Efficacy Study of The Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) Inhibitor, PCI-32765, In Subjects with Relapsed or Refractory or De Novo Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)"
Principal Investigator: E.R. Brown
Sponsor Name: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Award Title: "National Network of State and Local Health Surveys"
Principal Investigator: Timothy Donahue
Sponsor Name: UC/Cancer Research
Award Title: "Coordinating Committee (CRCC) Influence of SRC Signaling on Human Pancreatic Cancer Progression"
Principal Investigator: Gail Harrison
Sponsor Name: American Heart Association (Western States Affiliate)
Award Title: "Is There a Relationship Between Participation In Food Assistance Programs and Obesity?"
Principal Investigator: Steve Jacobsen
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Award Title: "Zhong: Actions of DRM3 on DRM2 Mediated DNA Methylation Jacobsen, Steve NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences Zhong: Actions of DRM3 on DRM2 Mediated DNA Methylation"
Principal Investigator: Ohyun Kwon
Sponsor Name: National Science Foundation
Award Title: "New Chemistry of Nitrodienes"
Principal Investigator: Sanaz Memarzadeh
Sponsor Name: Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation
Award Title: "Mechanisms and Predictors of Response to Progesterone Therapy in Endometrial Carcinoma"
Principal Investigator: Sherie Morrison
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute
Award Title: "Antibody-Interferon Fusion Proteins for Treatment of B-Cell Malignancies"
Principal Investigator: Matteo Pellegrini
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Award Title: "DNA Methylation and its Relationship to Gene Expression and Physiologic Traits"
Principal Investigator: Jorge Torres
Sponsor Name: UC/Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC)
Award Title: "Targeting Pericentriolar Matrix Cohesion in Cancer Treatment"
Principal Investigator: James Wohlschlegel
Sponsor Name: UC/Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC)
Award Title: Examining the Role of FE-S Cluster Biogenesis in the Assembly of DNA Repair Complexes"
Principal Investigator: Lily Wu
Sponsor Name: U.S. Army/Medical Research Acquisition Activity
Award Title: "The Role of Bone-Marrow Derived Myeloid Cells In Establishing a Pre-Metastatic Niche in the Lymphatic Spread of Prostate Cancer (SCHOKRPUR)"
Principal Investigator: Roshan Bastani
Sponsor Name: DHHS/Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Award Title: "Geographic Access to Care and HPV Vaccine Uptake Among Ethnic Minority Girls"
Principal Investigator: Edward Garon
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute
Award Title: "Inhibiting EGFR and ER Pathways in NSCLC"