This Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $421,204 to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to conduct research on "Platelet Pathophysiology in Resistance to Antiangiogenic Therapy Against Ovarian Cancer Evaluated in a Vascularized TME-Chip." The award period runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028. The research aims to advance understanding of how platelets contribute to...
This Project Grant award, valued at $750,000.00, was issued on May 1, 2025 by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant supports research by the University of Houston System to investigate "Circulating Immune Complexes as Biomarkers for Early Detection and Monitoring of Ovarian Cancer." The research aims to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public through innovative...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $647,998 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The award will fund research to develop image-guided, bidirectional EphB4 agonist-based therapy for ovarian cancer over a 4-year period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027. MD Anderson, a comprehensive cancer treatment and research center, has extensive experience conducting basic,...
The federal Project Grant award of $457,185.00, awarded by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports a research project led by Clemson University to characterize fallopian tube-derived extracellular vesicles for the discovery of ovarian cancer biomarkers. The 2-year project, running from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026, will leverage Clemson University's expertise in areas like cancer research, biomedical engineering, and...
The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $954,000 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 May 2023 to May 2026 aimed at epigenetic reprogramming to target senescent ovarian cancer cells and overcome therapeutic resistance. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research to transform military and public...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $647,995 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on image-guided bidirectional EphB4 agonist-based therapy for ovarian cancer. The award period runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027. As a leading cancer treatment and research institution, MD Anderson has extensive experience delivering a wide range of cancer-related...
The University of Southern California will receive $413,750 through September 2025 under a Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency to develop next-generation chimeric antigen receptor T cells targeting folate receptor 1 for the treatment of ovarian cancer. Funded through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), this award will support the grantee's applied medical research efforts to investigate innovative solutions for battlefield health care and transform...
The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center received a $150,692 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency to target EEF-2 kinase and overcome therapeutic resistance in lung cancer. Funded through the Military Medical Research and Development program, this award supports innovative biomedical research to transform military and public health care. The two-year project aims to investigate medical solutions for the battlefield by exploring ways to overcome treatment failure in...
This Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $577,680.00 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to conduct research aimed at "TARGETING EHMT1/2 TO OVERCOME THERAPY-RESISTANT OVARIAN CANCER". The research, to be performed at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, seeks to develop innovative medical solutions to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $539,453 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to develop a microfluidics-based approach for isolating antigen-specific T cells in non-small cell lung cancer. The research aims to optimize methods for enriching and identifying T cells that recognize and bind to tumor cells, leveraging this platform to predict clinical outcomes. As a sub-award, the...