
Cancer Developmental Projects Awardees
Our cancer development project awardees receive funds to conduct research projects designed to advance the treatment of cancer.
2022 Developmental Projects Program Awardees
Brian D. Dynlacht, PhD, and Diane M. Simeone, MD
Identifying novel inhibitors of pancreatic tumor growth
Michelle Krogsgaard, PhD, and Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD
The correlation between neoantigen landscape and response to Pembrolizumab in melanoma patients
Alexander Serganov, PhD, and Evgeny Nudler, PhD
Small molecule-macromolecule interactions, RNA-protein interactions, structural biology, drug q1wa-32 design
2021 Developmental Projects Program Awardees
Jane Skok, PhD
Understanding the relationship between condensin and cohesin in mitosis and postmitotic cells
Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD, Paul E. Oberstein, MD, and Christopher Wolfgang, MD, PhD
Assessment of an exercise intervention for neo-adjuvant pancreatic cancer and impact on peripheral and intra-tumoral immunity
Neville Sanjana, PhD, and Catherine S. Diefenbach, MD
Development of novel CAR T-cell therapies for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Elaine Shum, MD
New York Female Asian Nonsmoker Screening Study (FANSS)
Kenneth S. Hu, MD
Phase II: Adaptive de-escalation of radiation therapy dose in HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer
2020 Developmental Projects Program Awardees
Benjamin G. Neel, MD, PhD, and Shohei Koide, PhD
Generating and assessing immune responses to covalent anti-cancer drug target complexes
John T. Poirier, PhD, and Thales Y. Papagiannakopolous, PhD
In vivo modeling of complex lung cancer genotypes by in situ high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy
Jane Skok, PhD, and Aristotelis Tsirigos, PhD
Dynamic regulation of cancer therapy resistance genes via three-dimensional contacts with non-coding regulatory elements
Jun Wang, PhD, and Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD
Siglec-15 as a novel immune evasion mechanism for KRAS mutant pancreatic cancer
2019 Developmental Projects Program Awardees
Lorna E. Thorpe, MPH, PhD
Developing and validating model cancer surveillance measures for NYC and its neighborhoods using electronic health record data
Stacy Loeb, MD
Using a user-centered design framework to develop a tailored sleep health improvement program (SHIP) for prostate cancer patients and caregivers
Aristotelis Tsirigos, PhD
Integrated characterization of histological and molecular tumor heterogeneity using deep learning
Itai Yanai, PhD, and Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD
Building a human melanoma atlas for personalized immunotherapy treatment
Theodore H. Welling, MD, and Itai Yanai, PhD
Therapeutic targeting of tumor-associated macrophages in hepatocellular carcinoma
2018 Developmental Projects Program Awardees
Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD
Role of enteric virome on immune-checkpoint blockade efficacy and toxicity
Stella S. Yi, MPH, PhD, Ophira M. Ginsburg, MD, and Mary E. Northridge, MPH, PhD
Prevention of HPV-related cancer disparities through chairside screening and vaccination referral
2017 Developmental Projects Program Awardees
Michael E. Pacold, MD, PhD, and Diane M. Simeone, MD
Targeting lipoic acid–dependent metabolism in pancreatic cancer
Evgeny A. Nudler, PhD
Using maximum-depth sequencing for liquid biopsy detection of lung cancer