Basic, Clinical, or Translational Human Tissue Based Cancer Research Project Awards

December 13, 2010
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is pleased to announce the recipients of pilot funding to support basic, clinical or translational human tissue based research. The purpose of these awards is to foster collaborations and to promote and increase institution-wide capacity and competitiveness in research.

James Jacobberger, PhD: Cell Signaling as an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Biomarker

Ruth Keri, PhD: Follistatin as an Inhibitor of Metastatic Progression in Breast Cancer

Andrew Sloan, MD: Targeted Proteomics to Predict Differential Glioblastoma Survival

Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD: Development of Human Brain Tumor Tissue Microarrays

Ge Jin, PhD: Human β-defensins as Novel Biomarkers for Precancerous Lesions of Colorectal Cancer

Cheryl Thompson, PhD: A Biorepository for Research in Lung Cancer Risk, Detection and Prognosis

William Schiemann, PhD Oncogenic TGF-β Effectors are Novel Biomarkers for Recurrent Cancer