Seeding Research in Cancer 2014 Winners Announced

Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center

Seeding Research in Cancer 2014 Awardee

Laurie Littlepage, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UND

Microenvironment regulation of asymmetric cell divisions to promote chemotherapy resistance

 

Walther Cancer Foundation

Seeding Research in Cancer 2014 Awardees

Niranjan Awasthi, Research Professor, Dept. of Surgery, IUSMSB

Enhancing chemotherapy response in pancreatic cancer through targeted inhibition of MAPK and PI3K signaling pathways

 

Karen Cowden-Dahl, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, IUSMSB

ARID3B induces CD133-mediated homing to the ovarian cancer metastatic niche

 

Richard Dahl, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, IUSMSB

Promotion of acute lymphoblastic leukemia by the mirn23a microRNA cluster

 

Reginald Hill, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, UND

Utilizing ER stress inhibition to sensitize drug resistant pancreatic cancer to gemcitabine treatment

 

Oleg Kim, Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Statistics, UND

The role of cadherin composition and matrix-mediated intracellular biomechanical interaction in multicellular aggregate dynamics

 

Ryan Roeder, Associate Professor, Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, UND and Tracy Vargo-Gogola, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, IUSMSB

Improved delivery and clearance of targeted nanoparticles for contrast-enhanced X-ray detection of breast microcalcifications

 

Zachary Schultz, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Laurie Littlepage, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UND

Novel label-free flow detection to quantify metabolites during breast cancer