The federal Project Grant award of $3,120,000.00 from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports research conducted by Thomas Jefferson University's Sidney Kimmel Medical College on novel tumor-targeted immunotherapies against metastatic uveal melanoma. This 4-year award, running from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2029, aims to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public through innovative...
Thomas Jefferson University, doing business as Sidney Kimmel Medical College, was awarded a $234,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program. The three-year grant will fund research into precision therapies for metastatic uveal melanoma prevention and treatment by investigating multimodal GNAQ signaling pathways. Through September 2021 to August 2024, Sidney Kimmel Medical College researchers will work to transform...
The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $592,646 Project Grant to Thomas Jefferson University's Sidney Kimmel Medical College on September 1, 2022 to fund research titled "Slow Proliferation of BAP1-Mutant Uveal Melanoma Cells and Its Role in Metastasis." The grant is being conducted under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), which supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research to transform military and public health care...
This Project Grant award of $624,000.00 from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to Thomas Jefferson University (Sidney Kimmel Medical College) supports research to identify mechanisms of tolerance and resistance to the combination of darovasertib and crizotinib in uveal melanoma. The research aims to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the public through innovative biomedical investigations focused on disease...
The U.S. Defense Health Agency awarded Yale University a $912,487 Project Grant under the Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on the role of Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 in the progression of uveal melanoma. The 3-year research project, starting on September 15, 2023 and ending on September 14, 2026, aims to advance the understanding of this specific protein complex's involvement in the development and spread of a rare form...
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $820,833 Project Grant to The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc., a non-profit research organization affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear. The grant, funded through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports a research project to "Identify the Liver Microenvironment that Drives Uveal Melanoma Metastasis and Immunity." The 3-year award, effective from...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $756,897 Project Grant to Thomas Jefferson University, doing business as the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, for the federal grant program "Military Medical Research and Development" (CFDA 12.420). The grant, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2027, will support "Second-Generation Precision Medicine for BRCA-Mutant Ovarian Cancer" research. Thomas Jefferson University, a leading academic medical center known for its innovative medical...
This federal Project Grant award of $858,000.00 from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program supports a longitudinal analysis of the mesenchymal cell state from melanoma initiation to metastatic progression at Thomas Jefferson University's Sidney Kimmel Medical College. The award, effective August 1, 2024, with a completion date of July 31, 2027, funds advanced biomedical research aimed at transforming healthcare for...
The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded Thomas Jefferson University a $841,473 project grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026 to develop occult colorectal cancer elimination through GUCY2C-directed immunotherapy. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research to transform military and public health care through...
The University of California, San Diego will use a $632,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command to support research titled "MULTIMODAL GNAQ SIGNALING: PRECISION THERAPY FOR METASTATIC UVEAL MELANOMA PREVENTION AND TREATMENT." The grant is part of the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), which aims to transform military and public health through innovative biomedical research solutions for battlefield medicine. Under this...