The Breast Cancer Project
One out of eight women will get breast cancer in their lifetime, and every hour nearly five women die from this disease.
Given the critical and all too common occurrence of this form of cancer, the NCC created the Breast Cancer Project to earmark funds specifically for basic research into the causes and potential treatments and cures for this disease.
Our grant to Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, funds research into breast cancer genetics and is geared to making existing approaches more effective in the prevention, detection and treatment of breast cancer. This project addresses issues at the cutting edge of cancer immunotherapy.
Current Grants and Renewals
National Cancer Center has been proud to award grants to many fine research organizations.
We know that a cure lies in research and we are committed to supporting as many research projects as we can.
Xiaowei Wu, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
PROJECT: Targeting residual cancer cells upon CDK4/6 inhibition
TYPE: NEW GRANT
Yi Shi, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
PROJECT: Intratumoral hypoxia promotes metastatic liver-organotropism in breast cancer
TYPE: RENEWAL
Youngbin Cho, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
PROJECT: Myosin II as a target for suppressing tumor-associated macrophage recruitment in triple-negative breast cancer
TYPE: RENEWAL
Past Beneficiaries
Chiwei Xu, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller Univ, New York, NY
PROJECT: Crosstalk between epithelial stem cells and peripheral nerves in cancer
2021-2022
David Frankhouser, Ph.D.
Beckman Inst, City of Hope, CA
PROJECT: Detecting Neovascularity in MRI to identify and predict breast cancer
2020-2022
Michael C. Brown Ph.D.
Duke University
PROJECT: Cancer Immunotherapy through intratumoral activation of recall responses
2018-2017
Siang-Boon Koh, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
PROJECT: Synergistic targeting of DNA damage response and EMT pathways to reverse RASAL2-driven chemoresistance
2019-2021
Ibtehaj Naqvi, M.D., Ph.D.
Duke University, Durham, NC
PROJECT: Mitigating inflammation using nucleic acid scavengers to prevent breast cancer metastasis
2020-2022
Polina Vaitsenfeld, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University, NY
PROJECT: Enhancing antibody-mediated immunity against tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens
2019-2020
Andrej Gorbatenko
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, NY
PROJECT: Novel targeted therapy of inflammatory breast cancer
2016
Laura Saucedo-Cuevas, Ph.D.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, NY
PROJECT: Novel Targeted Therapy of Inflammatory Breast Cancer
2017
Yuntao Mao, Ph.D.
Harvard University
PROJECT: Role of Long Non-coding RNAs in Breast Cancer
2011-2012: 2 year fellowship
