SCI Innovation Awards
SCI Nodal Award
- Victoria Cosgrove, PhD; Catherine Benedict, PhD; Tanja Gruber, MD, PhD
Assessing Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Intratumoral Microbiome to Develop a Biomarker Predictive of Long-term Outcomes and Response to Chemotherapy
SCI Innovation Awards
- Wu Liu, PhD; Billy W. Loo Jr., MD, PhD; Harmeet Bedi, MD
Cone beam CT-guided, electromagnetic bronchoscopy-aided delivery of high dose rate brachytherapy for peripheral lung mass ablation - Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD, MPH
Promoting Nutrition Security Among Colorectal Cancer Survivors - Tian Yi Zhang, MD, PhD; David Kurtz, MD, PhD
Inventing a noninvasive way to detect measurable residual disease (MRD) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)
SCI Pancreatic Cancer Innovation Awards
- Laura Attardi, PhD; Jin Li, PhD
Targeting Adar1 to overcome pancreatic cancer resistance to immune checkpoint blockade - Xiaojing Gao, PhD
Enhance the Precision of Adoptive Cell Therapy Using Modular, Post-Transcriptional Synthetic Receptors - George Poultsides, MD, MS, FACS; Niaz Banaei, MD
Assessing Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Intratumoral Microbiome to Develop a Biomarker Predictive of Long-term Outcomes and Response to Chemotherapy
SCI Women’s Cancer Center Innovation Award
- Danny Chou, PhD; Everett Meyer, MD, PhD
Inserting a switch into IL-2 to develop PD-1-dependent immunotherapy - Alia Crum, PhD; Lidia Schapira, MD; David Spiegel, MD PhD; Michael Snyder, PhD
Can Changing Cancer Mindsets Improve Biomarkers of Immune Functioning? Piloting the Effects of a Novel Digital Intervention on Direct-to-Patient Blood Sampling and Multiomics Profiling - Kay Daniels, MD; Paul D. Blumenthal, MD, MPH
Feasibility of community based same day cervical cancer screening for refuge women in Tijuana, Mexico - Oliver Dorigo, MD, PhD
Novel strategies to improve ovarian cancer sensitivity to immunotherapy - Esther John, PhD; Allison Kurian, MD, MSc; Holden Maecker, PhD
Disparities in second primary breast cancer and inflammatory biomarkers - Erqi Pollom, MD; Manali Patel, MD, MS; Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhD
The impact of Multiraciality, Comorbidity, and Geography on Cancer Disparities Among the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population in the United States - Irene Wapnir, MD; Dung Nguyen, MD, Pharm D
Volume and Symmetry Outcomes in Unilateral Omentum-based Breast Reconstruction
Shmunis Family Innovation Awards in Cancer Therapeutics
- Steven Corsello, MD
Harnessing an E3 ligase for pancreatic cancer therapy
Behar Innovation Award in Sarcoma Research
- Jonathan Pollack, MD, PhD
Identifying novel therapeutic targets in liposarcoma
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Jun 8
Notification of Selection: Aug 1
Funding Period: Oct 1, 2023 – Sept 30, 2024