Cancer Currents for September 2007

Funding: New Awards

Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, MD
Member, Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: National Cancer Institute
“Vascular Leukocytes Influence the Tumor Microenvironment”

Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD
Member, Epidemiology and Chemoprevention Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: National Cancer Institute
“MicroRNAs and Lung Carcinogenesis”

Alan R. Eastman, PhD
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: National Cancer Institute 
“Mechanisms of Resistance to Cell Cycle Checkpoint Kinase Inhibitors”

Agency: National Cancer Institute 
“Cancer Biology and Molecular Therapeutics”

Patricia A. Ernst, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
“MLL Function in the Maintenance of the Blood Forming System”

Alex Hartov, PhD
Member, Radiobiology and Bioengineering Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Associate Professor at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Agency: National Cancer Institute
“Prostrate Cancer Screening with Electrical Impedance Measurements”

William B. Kinlaw, MD
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: National Cancer Institute
“Role of Protein S14 in Normal and Neoplastic Mammary”

Alexei F. Kisselev, PhD
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: American Cancer Society
“Different Active Sites of the Proteasome as Drug Targets in Cancer”

David J. Robbins, PhD
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: American Lung Association
“Uncovering Molecular Markers of Hedgehog Antagonist Sensitive Lung Cancer”

Agency: Lung Cancer Research Foundation
“Identify Novel Pharmacological Targets of the Hedgehog Pathyway in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma”

Michael J. Spinella, PhD
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: National Cancer Institute
“Epigenetic Reprogramming of Malignant Stem Cells of the Testes”

Edward J. Underwood, PhD
Member, Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
“T Cell Function in Murine Gammaherpesvirus Infection”

Michael L. Whitfield, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency:  Scleroderma Research Foundation
“A Gene Expression Map of Scleroderma”

Agency: National Cancer Institute
“Predicting and Testing Gene Function in the Human Cell Division Cycle”

Charles R. Wira, BS
Member, Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Professor of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School

Agency: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
“Innate Immune Protection Against HIV-1 by Reproductive Tract Epithelial Cells”