Funding Awardees
OVERVIEW
The purpose of these Knight funding mechanisms is to cultivate outstanding translational cancer research by assisting in the generation of preliminary data leading to peer-reviewed national funding. This mechanism is intended to support clinical, basic, or population-based research that is cancer focused.
Many of the awards below have been make possible as a result of the generous support of our philanthropic donors.
OHSU Knight Cancer Research Development Awards: 2013
OHSU Knight Cancer Pilot Project Awards: 2013
OHSU Knight Cancer Clinical Scholars 2013
OHSU Knight Cancer Research Development Awards: 2013
Sophia Bornstein, MD, PhD, Resident PGY3, Radiation Medicine
Cathy and Jim Rudd Career Development Award for Cancer Research
Title: "Functional Significance of Tumor-initiating Cells in Recurrent Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma"
Co-investigators: Melissa Hirose Wong, PhD, OHSU; Joe Gray, PhD, OHSU; Charles R. Thomas, Jr, MD, OHSU
Jamie Michelle Keck, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Knight Cancer Institute
Oregon Cancer Ski Out Cancer Research Development Award
Title: "Validation of Ras Pathway Mutations as Potential Drivers of Leukemic Progression"
Nameeta Richard, MD, Pediatric Hematology Oncology Fellow, 3rd year
Umpqua Bank Innovation Award for Pediatric Cancer Research
Title: "Novel Strategies for Therapeutically Targeting T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"
Brian Ruffel, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
U.S. Bank Cancer Research Development Award
Title: "Targeting Immunosuppressive pathways to improve efficacy of adoptive cell transfer therapy"
OHSU Knight Cancer Pilot Project Awards: 2013
James Korkola, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
MMGL Corp. Pilot Project Award
Title: "Designing rational drug combinations against oncogenic tyrosine kinases using high sensitivity phosphoproteomics"
OHSU Knight Cancer Clinical Scholars 2013
Chris Ryan, MD, Associate Professor
Award made possible by philanthropy
Eneida Nemecek, MD, MS, Director, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program
Award made possible by philanthropy
Stephen Spurgeon, MD, Assistant Professor
Award made possible by Eric and Janet Parsons
Steve Chui, MD, Assistant Professor
Award made possible by Dive for the Cure
