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The Cancer Research Foundation makes ad hoc grants to support ground-breaking research projects in science. The latest of this is the Interdisciplinary Leukemia Project, a six-part, systems-based interdisciplinary attack on therapy based Acute Myloid Leukemia, a secondary cancer that strikes 8 to 10% of cancer survivors. 

The Interdiscipinary Leukemia Project

Multiple Principal Investigators   ·   University of Chicago

A major new grant to support novel science in cancer research: The Interdisciplinary Leukemia Project, a six-part systems biology-based interdisciplinary attack on therapy-based Acute Myeloid Leukemia, a secondary cancer that strikes 8 to 10% of cancer survivors.

The Cancer Research Foundation Program in GI Cancer Prevention And Control

Principal Investigator: Nathan Ellis   ·   University of Chicago

In 2005, the CRF made a $1.5 Million grant to the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center (UCCRC) to launch the Cancer Research Foundation Program in Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer to aid in the building of a comprehensive cancer program, leading efforts in population-based research, genetic risk assessment, computational biology, cancer prevention, detection and treatment. This grant has helped build infrastructure for the GI Program; expand the GI Program model into other cancer areas; and obtain comprehensive status from the National Cancer Institute.

The Bernice Goldblatt Pediatric Pharmacogentics Program

Principal Investigators: Dr. Ramamoorthy Nagasubramanian, Dr. John Cunningham   ·   University of Chicago

In 2004 the Cancer Research Foundation awarded $500,000 to establish a Pediatric Pharmacogenetics Program at the University of Chicago. The overall goal of this project is to discover molecular determinants that influence anticancer drug response and toxicity in patients with sarcoma.