PARDEE FOUNDATION - GRANT RECIPIENTS

Examples of Recent Research Grants (2005)

	Advances in cancer treatment technologies depend on research support.

University of California, Davis - $100,000 for the study of coordination of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes in colorectal cancer.

Dartmouth Medical School - $95,413 for the study of identification, expression, profiling, and pilot study to assess the diagnostic value of microRNAs in breast cancer.

Johns Hopkins University - $100,000 for the determination of the biochemical function of PigU-A, a newly discovered oncogene in bladder cancer.

University of Michigan - $137,816 for the study of circulating proteomic markers to predict radiation pneumonitis in treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - $92,890 for the study of targeting surviving and XIAP, members of antapoptotic proteins in Philadelphia chromosome- positive, imantib resistant leukemia.

Wayne State University - $217,308 (2 year) for the identification of genes relevant to liver metastasis of pancreatic cancer.

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research - $100,000 for the study of the role of progenitor cell differentiation and CD44 expression in mammary tumorigenesis.

Washington University St. Louis - $94,350 for the study of the role of nucleolar antigens in prostate cancer development.