We are pleased to announce the awardees of the 2018 Walther Cancer Foundation Interdisciplinary Interface Training Program (IITP) grants. The IITP funding mechanism aims to establish cancer-focused integrative interdisciplinary training environment, provide support for highly qualified and productive applicants, and demonstrate efficacy of this training model to support future NIH T32 application.  

 

The Cancer Cure Venture Grants will be announced in September. The overall goals of the CCV funding mechanism is to stimulate novel multi-disciplinary integrative cancer research, seed collaborative interactions between at least 2 scientific fields, provide cross-disciplinary training environment for post-doctoral fellows, and generate high quality preliminary data for extramural application.

 

IITP AWARDEES: 

Student: Elizabeth Harper

 

Mentors: Sharon Stack, Ann F. Dunne and Elizabeth Riley Director of Harper Cancer Research Institute, Kleiderer-Pezold Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Brian Blagg, Director of Warren Family Research Center for Drug Discovery and Development, Charles Huisking Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

 

Project Title: The Role of Aging Peritoneum on Ovarian Cancer Metastasis

 

Student: Tyler Finamore

 

Mentors: Ryan Roeder, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering Graduate Program; Laurie Littlepage, Campbell Family Assistant Professor of Cancer Research, Assistant Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry

 

Project Title: Disruption of Microcalcification-Induced Tumorigenesis Using Bisphosphonate-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

 

CCV AWARDEES:

Pending