Winter 2008 Newsletter: We are pleased to announce the 2007 Young Investigator Award Winners

Blasé Polite, M.D., MPP
Instructor, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

“Understanding Radical Disparities in Chemotherapy Receipt”

Robert Doebele, M.D., PhD.
Instructor, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

“Generation of an Anti-Angiogenesis Susceptibility Signature in Cancer”

Tanguy Seiwert, M.D.
Instructor, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

“Synergism Studies of c-MET Inhibition and Radiation, Chemotherapy, and Chemoradiation in Head and Neck Squamous Carcinoma (HNSCC)”

Bohao Chen, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

“Role of GATA5 in Gastric Cancer"

Qianfei “Jeffrey” Wang, M.D., PhD
Research Associate (Assistant Professor), Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

“Application of Genomic Approaches in Understanding MLL Fusion Protein Mediated Oncogenic Gene Activation”

Helmut Grasberger, M.D.
Research Associate (Assistant Professor), Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

“Recurrent Inversion Rearrangement of NADPH Oxidase Genes in Thyroid Cancer”

Patrick A. Singleton, PhD.
Instructor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

“Hyaluronan (HA) Regulation of Tumor-associated Angiogenesis”

Iris Romero, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Chicago

"Bazedoxifene as Chemoprophylaxis for Ovarian Cancer”