The Defense Health Agency awarded a $724,500 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program to Duke University. The grant, titled "Targeting Dormancy-Associated Immune Tolerance to Eliminate Residual Breast Cancer," will fund advanced biomedical research to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public. The research, to be conducted at Duke University's Office of Research Administration Division from March...
The Defense Health Agency awarded Duke University a $1,167,250 Project Grant (CFDA 12.420 - Military Medical Research and Development) with a performance period from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The grant funding supports Duke's research on the role of the NLRP3-NLRC5 signaling pathway in melanoma immune evasion and dormancy. The research aims to advance the understanding of mechanisms underlying melanoma progression, with the potential to inform new therapeutic approaches. As a prominent...
The Defense Health Agency awarded Duke University a $804,999 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to support research on "DETECTING MISSED METASTASES FROM NOMINALLY EARLY-STAGE MELANOMAS WITH PUMP-PROBE MICROSCOPY". The award runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The Project Grant enables Duke's research to transform health care for Service Members and the American public through innovative and impactful biomedical research...
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $4,818,759 Project Grant to Duke University under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) for the project "SINGLE-CELL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF LETHAL BREAST CANCERS". The grant, awarded on April 1, 2024, will fund research to improve understanding and treatment of lethal breast cancers through advanced single-cell and spatial analysis techniques. This work supports the program's goals of...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $828,591 Project Grant under CFDA 12.420, the Military Medical Research and Development program, to Duke University. The grant supports research titled "Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment to Enhance Immunotherapy for SCLC", with a performance period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2027. This research aims to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the public by advancing innovative biomedical investigations focused on...
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $700,032 Project Grant to Duke University under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2029, will fund research to investigate "Imaging Strategies and Biomarkers for Detecting the Metabolic Interplay of Glutamine and Aspartate in RCC." This research aims to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public by...
Duke University was awarded a $931,969 project grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 to develop epigenetic signatures to predict pathological nodal stage for de-escalation of axillary surgery in patients with clinically node-positive breast cancer. The research aims to transform patient care by investigating medical solutions that could help reduce the need...
The Defense Health Agency awarded Duke University a $3,811,150.00 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct a research project titled "SINGLE-CELL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF LETHAL BREAST CANCERS". The grant period runs from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2028. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include comprehensive single-cell and spatial analysis of breast cancer samples to characterize tumor heterogeneity...
The Defense Health Agency has awarded a $1,581,751 Project Grant to Duke University to conduct the "THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION TO REVERSE GASTRIC PRECANCER" research project under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). This federal grant, with a performance period from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2028, will enable Duke University's researchers to investigate innovative therapeutic interventions to reverse precancerous gastric conditions. The Military Medical...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,086,750.00 Project Grant to Duke University under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant is for the project "TARGETING ENVIRONMENTAL FERROPTOSIS PROTECTION AS NOVEL THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY FOR METASTATIC RENAL CELL CARCINOMA" and will be completed by Aug 31, 2026. The project aims to research novel therapeutic strategies for metastatic renal cell carcinoma by targeting environmental ferroptosis protection.