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Systemic delivery of siRNA by Nanosac for checkpoint blockade immunotherapy of head and neck squamous cell cancer
ABSTRACT Head and neck cancer is currently treated by concomitant chemotherapy and radiation, but local recurrence and metastatic disease remain a concern. In particular, there is...
Development of multifunctional drug and immune modulator delivery nanoparticles for the treatment of cancer patients with comorbid atherosclerosis
Project Summary Cancer and cardiovascular disease are leading causes of death in the United States. Given the high percentage of cancer patients with co-existing atherosclerosis, t...
Imaging Modulation of Immune Phenotype
Imaging and modulation of immunophenotype Most importantly, we have created TLR delivery nanotherapeutics and find that TLR NPs combined with aCD40, aPD-1 and aCTL4 (abbreviated as...
Integrated Training in Quantitative and Experimental Cancer Systems Biology
Project Summary There is an outstanding need for a national cadre of quantitatively sophisticated oncologists, with deep training in both biological aspects of cancer and computati...
Targeting cholesterol metabolism and replication stress response in cancer therapy
Project Summary: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for large majority of lung cancer diagnoses, a...
Dysregulation of Liver Macrophages in Pancreatic Cancer
PROJECT SUMMARY Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Metastasis is the major cause of mortality for pat...
Understanding affective processing of scientific evidence to promote informed choice for breast cancer screening
Project Summary/Abstract Cancer screening for the right patients at the right level of cancer risk can save lives, but over the last several years many expert groups have de-intens...
Identifying targets for combination therapy with FOLFIRINOX and investigating cell polarity loss as a potential driver of invasion in basal-like PDAC
Abstract Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal disease with a dismal five-year survival rate of 9% even with current treatments. There are two molecular tumor subtype...
The effect of epigenetic DNA methylation on the progression of HPV-associated precancerous cervical lesions
PROJECT SUMMARY Reducing morbidity and mortality due to invasive cervical cancer (ICC) is a global health priority, which can be accomplished in part by improving the timely detect...
Role of Erbb3 kinase activity in colorectal tumorigenesis.
The overarching goals of this proposal are to determine if Erbb3 kinase plays a critical role in colorectal tumorigenesis and to test if colorectal cancer with oncogenic Erbb3 muta...
Role of extracellular matrix proteins and tumor stroma in DNA repair and cancer progression
PROJECT SUMMARY Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is the fourth lethal cancer in the U.S. with a 5-year survival rate of only ~10%. The mainstay of therapy in PDA is chemother...
Targeting AR and AR-Variants in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Project Summary/Abstract Current AR inhibitors (enzalutamide and abiraterone) inhibit either the conversion of androgen to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), block androgen binding to andr...
Targeting MUC5AC mucin in breast cancer brain metastasis
Abstract Breast cancer (BC) brain/central nervous system (CNS) metastasis is associated with poor survival among U.S. women, with 30-40% of these cases reported as triple receptor-...
Polyunsaturated fatty acids and colorectal tumor risk: a molecular and genetic epidemiology study
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Arachidonic acid, a long-chain ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), has been demonstrated to affect carcinogenesis in animal and in vitro studies. The ef...
Effects of GPCR trafficking on the spatiotemporal control of signaling
Project Summary/Abstract G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a family of signaling receptors that regulate essentially every physiological process. Recent studies have b...
Targeting vulnerabilities of PPM1D-mutant gliomas
Project Summary/Abstract Diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) are devastating brain tumors of childhood with no curative treatments. We and others have observed up to 15% of all DMGs to...
Energy Balance, mTOR pathway signaling, and breast cancer prognosis
Project Summary/Abstract The objective of this project is to understand the role of the mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in the association between energy imbalance a...
Bayesian Network-Based Integrative Genomics Methods for Precision Medicine
Project Summary/Abstract Modern multi-platform genomic data sets contain substantial molecular information potentially useful for discovering new precision therapeutic strategies....
Glioma therapy with oncolytic adenoviruses and immunometabolic adjuvants
SUMMARY / ABSTRACT With current treatment options, the five-year survival rate of patients with glioblastoma (GBM) is only 5%. Oncolytic viruses are promising treatments against so...
Abbreviated Non-Contrast-Enhanced MRI for Breast Cancer Screening
Project Abstract Overview: In 2020, over 276,000 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, and over 48,000 will die from it. The ultimate goal of this project is to prov...