Amanda Kirane, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Section of Surgical Oncology, was awarded a $45,000 American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) Institutional Research Grant (IRG) for her project entitled “Biomarker Analysis of Neoadjuvant Intralesional Therapy in High-Risk Melanoma.”

David Kurtz, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology), was awarded a $45,000 American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) Institutional Research Grant (IRG) for his project entitled “Non-invasive Genotyping and Disease Monitoring of Multiple Myeloma from Cell-free DNA.”

Surbhi Sidana, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy), was awarded a $45,000 American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) Institutional Research Grant (IRG) for her project entitled “Stem Cell Graft and Immune Reconstitution Following Novel Investigational and Standard of Care Stem Cell Mobilization in Multiple Myeloma.”

Melody Smith, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy), was awarded a $45,000 American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) Institutional Research Grant (IRG) for her project entitled “Preclinical Characterization of Donor and Third-Party TCR KO anti-CD19 CAR T cells.”

Gheorghe Chistol, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, was awarded a $45,000 American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) Institutional Research Grant (IRG) for his project entitled “Deciphering the Division of Labor Between Activators of the DNA Damage Checkpoint.”

Michael Khodadoust, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and of Dermatology, was awarded a $45,000 American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) Institutional Research Grant (IRG) for his project entitled “Immune Targeting of the T-cell Receptor.”

Natalie Lui, MD, Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Thoracic Surgery), was awarded a $45,000 American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) Institutional Research Grant (IRG) for her project entitled “Intraoperative Molecular Imaging of Lung Cancer Using Panitumumab-IRDye800.”

Idit Sagiv-Barfi, PhD, Instructor of Medicine (Oncology), was awarded an American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) IRG pilot grant for her project entitled “Overcoming Intrinsic and Acquired Resistance to In Situ Immunotherapy in Aggressive Cancers.”

Possu Huang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, was awarded an American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) IRG pilot grant for his project entitled “Experimental Characterization and In Vivo Testing of Computationally Designed Self-assembling Superantigens as a Novel Cancer Immunotherapy.”

Tian Yi Zhang, MD, PhD, Instructor of Medicine (Hematology), was awarded an American Cancer Society-Stanford Cancer Institute (ACS-SCI) IRG pilot grant for her project entitled “Disruption of Immune Surveillance in Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Mutated Acute Myeloid Leukemia.”