The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $766,965 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) on June 30, 2024. The grant supports a 3-year research project to develop new methods for targeting kidney cancer tumors in order to improve immunotherapy outcomes. The research aims to identify tumor surface biomarkers that can be leveraged to enhance the effectiveness of cancer...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) has been awarded a Project Grant for $1,180,962.00 from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant, awarded on June 30, 2024, will support a research project titled "TUMOR SURFACE BIOMARKER-INDEPENDENT TARGETING OF KIDNEY CANCER TO IMPROVE IMMUNOTHERAPY" over a performance period ending on June 29, 2027. The grant funding will enable UT...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $1,083,136 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will support research from August 15, 2023 through August 14, 2026 to leverage SCARB1 overexpression for the treatment of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC) using low-density lipoprotein nanocarriers. UT Southwestern has extensive experience delivering...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $713,689 Project Grant by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The three-year grant, effective September 1, 2023, will support UT Southwestern's research to leverage biophysicochemical motifs in T-cell receptor antigen binding regions and antigen co-occurrence to predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. The grant provides funding for basic...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $1,107,000 project grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on tumor extravasation in zebrafish as a prognostic marker and therapeutic target for kidney cancer metastasis. The 3-year grant, which began on September 1, 2023 and runs through August 31, 2026, will support basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research with the...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center was awarded a $984,000 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on "Ribosome Marylation and Stress Responses in Ovarian Cancer: New Therapeutic Opportunities". The 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, will support basic science, translational, and clinical research to investigate new treatment approaches for ovarian cancer. As a...
This Project Grant award, valued at $159,341 and awarded on September 30, 2024, is funded through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) of the U.S. Department of the Army Medical Command. The grant supports research at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas to target the PARP1 protein as a means of overcoming castration resistance in prostate cancer. The research aims to advance new treatment approaches for this condition, which is a...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center will receive $573,999 under a Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command's Military Medical Research and Development program to support research understanding and targeting protein synthesis in leukemia stem cells. The three-year award beginning August 15, 2022 will fund investigation into medical solutions for leukemia at the cellular level through basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research. As the prime awardee,...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $324,452 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) by the Defense Health Agency. The grant, titled "Targeting PARP1 Trapping to Overcome PARP Inhibitor Resistance for BRCAmut Ovarian Cancers," will support research aimed at developing new treatments for ovarian cancer in military populations. The funding will enable UT Southwestern, a leading academic...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1.1 million project grant to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, to support research under the Military Medical Research and Development program. The three-year award beginning in June 2023 will fund the development of a multifunctional immunotherapy nanoparticle to enable innate immunotherapy for kidney cancer. As the prime awardee, UT Southwestern will leverage its expertise in oncology and immunology to advance this...