CPRIT awards more than $15 million to BCM for cancer research
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Researchers at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine have been awarded more than $15 million in grants by the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to support innovative cancer research, treatments and prevention measures. CPRIT awarded nearly $154 million in grants to institutions across Texas, including nine grants to Baylor, to advance the fight against cancer.
Awards to Baylor include:
Dr. Bingning Dong, assistant professor of medicine and molecular and cellular biology, received an individual investigator award of $900,000 for research titled, “Role of liver receptor homolog-1 in MASH-associated liver cancer.”
Dr. Margaret Goodell, professor and chair of molecular and cellular biology and Vivian L. Smith Chair in Regenerative Medicine, received an individual investigator award of $900,000 for research titled “Cooperation between NPM1c and TET2 loss in acute myeloid leukemia.”
Dr. Trey Westbrook, professor of molecular and human genetics and of biochemistry and molecular biology and Robert C. Welch Chair in Chemistry, received an individual investigator award of $900,000 for research titled “The HuSH complex as an immune-oncology target in TNBC.”
Dr. Chonghui Cheng, professor of molecular and human genetics and of molecular and cellular biology in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, received an individual investigator award of $900,000 for research titled “Enhancing tumor immunogenicity of TNBC through cryptic splicing-derived neopeptides.”
Dr. Lisa Kahalley, professor of pediatrics – psychology, received an individual investigator research award for cancer in children and adolescents of $1.2 million for research titled “Radiation dose-volume associations with neurocognitive change in pediatric brain tumor patients treated with proton vs. photon radiotherapy.”
Dr. Jeffrey Rosen, Distinguished Service Professor of molecular and cellular biology in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, received an individual investigator research award for clinical trials of $1.6 million for research titled “Enhancing therapeutic efficacy in TNBC through targeted modulation of RNA helicase eIF4A.”
Dr. Aaron Thrift, professor of medicine and section chief of epidemiology and population sciences, received an individual investigator research award for prevention and early detection of $1,199,450 for research titled “Family-based Helicobacter pylori screening and eradication for prevention of gastric cancer.”
Dr. Roger Zoorob, Richard M. Kleberg, Sr. Professor and Chair in Family and Community Medicine, received a cancer screening and early detection award of $2,444,560 for research titled “Expansion of the Lung Cancer Screening and Tobacco Control Network to rural and medical underserved populations.
Baylor also received $5 million for a Recruitment of Established Investigator Award.
To date, CPRIT has awarded more than $4 billion in grants to Texas research institutions and organizations through its academic research, prevention and product development programs. Read more about the most recent round of CPRIT funding here.
