What We Fund
In the last five years we’ve funded the following:
| 2022 | $1,050,000 | ||
$50,000 | Young Investigator Award – helping promising researchers at the beginning of their career | ||
$150,000 | Cancer Metabolomics Core Facility – supporting a system-based approach to help define complex interactions for diagnostic and therapeutic gain | ||
$150,000 | Ben May Department for Cancer Research – answering fundamental biological questions and finding applications for groundbreaking discoveries | ||
$125,000 | Translational Groups of Research Excellence (TGRE) – supporting multidisciplinary bench to bedside work | ||
$100,000 | Colorectal Cancer Immunotherapy – expanding existing work of an interdisciplinary team working on the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the US | ||
$100,000 | Improving Quality of Life and Outcomes for Head and Neck Cancer Patients – developing new treatment that maximizes treatment effectiveness while minimizing side effects | ||
$100,000 | Head and Neck Cancer Biomarker-driven HPV de-escalation therapy – working towards sparing patients from receiving unnecessary chemotherapies | ||
$100,000 | Identification of Solid Tumor Target for Women’s Cancer – developing immunotherapies for cancer patients | ||
$100,000 | Head and Neck Cancer ATRA enhances effect of radiotherapy and immunotherapy – supporting a clinical trial effort for head and neck cancer | ||
$75,000 | Community Impact – Cervical Cancer – working to reduce health disparities through HPV vaccination | ||
| 2021 | $270,000 (limited fundraising activity due to Covid) | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Leveraging AI/Data Science to Understand, Diagnose, and Treat Cancer | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Tumor Biology – Metabolism | ||
$70,000 | Personalized Cancer Treatments | ||
| 2020 | $950,000 | ||
$150,000 | Ben May Department for Cancer Research | ||
$150,000 | Team Science Grant – Addressing the cancer community’s most provocative questions | ||
$100,000 | Human Tissue Resource Center | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Leveraging AI/Data Science to understand, diagnose and treat cancer | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Tumor Biology – Modeling and understanding cancer as a complex disease | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Cancer Risk and Prevention – Adopting novel measures to reduce risk and prevent cancer | ||
$80,000 | Committee on Cancer Biology | ||
$70,000 | Personalized Cancer Treatments | ||
$50,000 | Funding Support for “Near the Payline” NCI Grant Applications | ||
$50,000 | Women’s Board Senior Scholar | ||
| 2019 | $1,030,000 | ||
$150,000 | Ben May Department for Cancer Research | ||
$100,000 | Human Tissue Resource Center | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Risk Assessment and Prevention – Imaging technologies for early detection | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Tumor Biology and Innovative Treatment – Molecular drivers of tumor behavior | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Tumor Biology and Innovative Treatment – Translational research and precision genomics trials | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Tumor Biology and Innovative Treatment – Image guided therapy for cancer | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Survivorship – Value of Cancer Care: Lowering drug cost & side effects through reduced dosing approaches | ||
$80,000 | Committee on Cancer Biology | ||
$70,000 | Personalized Cancer Treatments | ||
$50,000 | Funding Support for “Near the Payline” NCI Grant Applications | ||
$50,000 | Women’s Board Senior Scholar | ||
$30,000 | High-Priority Collaborative Initiatives | ||
| 2018 | $1,150,000 | ||
$150,000 | Team Science | ||
$150,000 | Janet D. Rowley Discovery Fund | ||
$150,000 | Ben May Department for Cancer Research | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Survivorship in AYA Patients | ||
$100,000 | Spotlight: Cancer Risk Reduction | ||
$100,000 | Innovation in Breast Cancer Screening & Diagnosis | ||
$100,000 | Human Tissue Resource Center | ||
$80,000 | Committee on Cancer Biology | ||
$70,000 | Personalized Cancer Treatments | ||
$50,000 | Women’s Board Senior Scholar | ||
$50,000 | Radiotracers for Cancer Detection & Monitoring Treatment | ||
$50,000 | Near the Payline Grant Applications |
