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Investigating the Role of Radiation-induced Cell Death in Innate Lymphoid Cell Activation within Unique Tumor Microenvironments
PROJECT SUMMARY: The role of ionizing radiation as an ?in situ? vaccine is based on radiation?s ability to induce the release of tumor antigens which activate antigen-presenting ce...
ERβ repurposes EZH2 to suppress oncogenic NFκB signaling in TNBC
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women.Triple Negative Brea...
Genetic Biomarkers for Risk of CLL Progression among high-count MBLs
Monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL) is a precursor state to chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and one of the most common premalignant conditions.MBL is present in 5-10% of the...
Tuning CAR-T cell function
Abstract Chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) expressed by T cells recognize tumor cells via single chains antibodies and activate T cell cytotoxic machinery and costimulation. In clin...
New Statistical Methods for Modelling Cancer Outcomes
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Lung cancer is one of the most common causes of mortality worldwide. Radiomic features have been shown to provide prognostic values in predicting lung canc...
Re-engineered Mitochondrially Targeted p53 Gene Therapy in Liver Cancer
Abstract: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common cancer of the liver, is the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. In the U.S., the overall 5-year survival rate f...
X-ray/optical tomographic guidance and assessment for pre-clinical radiation Research
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Over the past 10-years, our group has made multi-disciplinary efforts to bridge the technological gap between radiation methods for human treatment and pre...
Engineering Brain Cancer in a Dish: Hydrogel-based 3D in vitro Models for Pediatric Brain Tumor
Diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) are a highly aggressive pediatric brain tumor of the ventral pons (brain stem), with a five-year survival rate of less than 1% and a median...
Exploiting convergent evolution to design biomarker extraction tools for the prediction of therapeutic response in cancer
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The effective treatment of drug resistant tumors represents one of the greatest unmet needs in oncology research. The evolution of therapeutic resistance i...
A Leukemia Cell-Specific Coiled-Coil Protein for Treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Project Summary/Abstract The long-term goals of this proposal are to explore the protein dimerization interface as an area for therapeutic intervention. Protein dimerization/oligom...
Optimizing Colorectal Cancer Screening among Patients with Diabetes in Safety-Net Primary Care Settings: Targeting Implementation Approaches
ABSTRACT Patients with diabetes mellitus have an estimated 27% elevated risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) and are disproportionately Non-Hispanic blacks (NHBs) and Hispani...
Ribonucleotide Reductase in Hepatoblastoma Progression and Drug Resistance
PROJECT SUMMARY Hepatoblastoma (HB) is a rare liver cancer that occurs exclusively in young children. Although most HB tumors can be removed by surgery after chemotherapy, a small...
Elucidating the role and mechanisms by which collagenase producing intestinal bacteria promote colorectal cancer recurrence and metastasis following surgery.
PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major health concern with nearly 2-million new cases of CRC diagnosed worldwide in 2019. While surgical resection of the pri...
CCL2 and CCR2 as metastatic drivers and therapeutic targets in medulloblastoma
PROJECT SUMMARY Brain tumors are the most common solid tumor and the leading cause of cancer-related death in children. Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant pediatric...
Serial immunotherapy combination to modulate the tumor environment in patients with metastatic gastroesophageal cancer
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Development of effective therapies is an urgent unmet medical need for patients with metastatic gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (mGEA). The advent of immun...
A deubiquitination module controls Treg adaptation to tumor microenvironment
Project Summary: One of the recent advances in cancer treatment is the development of immunotherapy largely through targeting the checkpoint receptors. However, attempts at immunot...
Modeling myelodysplasia
PROJECT SUMMARY Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are a cancer of the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) on the rise in the aging population and cancer survivors. The only curative treatm...
Dissecting the mechanistic role of multinucleation in breast and trophoblast cancers
Project Summary/Abstract A key driver of cancer is the global deregulation of transcription networks in the cell. Transcriptional output is dependent on chromatin structure and top...
Early Detection and Diagnosis of Lung Cancer with Endomicroscopy
PROJECT SUMMARY Early diagnosis of lung cancer is critical to patient survival. Unfortunately the vast majority of cases are detected once symptoms arise and the cancer has spread...
The role of type 1 dendritic cells in CD4 and CD8 T cell anti-tumor immunity
PROJECT SUMMARY Cancer immunotherapies have revolutionized the treatment of malignancies, but these therapeutics still face enormous challenges and limited efficacy in many patient...