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Award Type
Team Science Award
Established Investigator Award
Young Investigator Award
Pilot Award
Development Award
Year
2008
2009
2008 Results

Team Science Awards

  • Therapeutic targeting of melanoma stem cells
  • MHC-associated phosphopeptides as targets for melanoma immunotherapy
  • A genome-wide association study to identify melanoma predisposition genes
  • Accelerating melanoma therapy: Genomics, drug screening and informatics
  • Therapeutic inhibition of mutant activated signaling pathways in melanoma

 

 

Established Investigator Awards

  • The novel melanoma oncogene GNAQ provides new opportunities for therapeutic intervention
  • Systemic MFG-E8 blockade as melanoma therapy
  • Targeted strategies for melanoma treatment and prevention
  • Synthetic lethality to MAP kinase pathway inhibition in BRAF-mutant melanoma
  • Genetics of melanoma metastasis
  • Platform for MHC-exchange based T cell therapy for melanoma
  • A pathway to rational combination therapies for melanoma: Synthetic lethal screening with small molecule inhibitors, guided by phosphoproteome analysis
  • Immunologic signatures of response to ipilimumab

 

Young Investigator Awards

  • Targeting CD4+ T cells for melanoma immunotherapy
  • Regulation of T cellchemokine receptor expression during vaccination: Tumor-targetedimmunotherapy
  • Defining the role of inducible co-stimulator (ICOS)-expressing T cells against melanoma

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