This $1,146,270 Project Grant was awarded by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to the University of Wisconsin System to target a lipid kinase regulator of nuclear Akt in breast cancer. The project aims to transform health care for Service Members and the American public through innovative and impactful research, with a focus on medical solutions for the battlefield. The grant will fund research activities at the University of...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,146,270.00 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to the University of Wisconsin System. The grant supports research targeting a lipid kinase regulator of nuclear AKT in breast cancer, with a performance period from July 15, 2023 to July 14, 2026. The University of Wisconsin System, through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division, will conduct this biomedical research to...
The University of Wisconsin System was awarded a $995,076 project grant by the U.S. Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to support the development of new agents for the treatment of hormone receptor positive and HER2 positive breast cancer. The grant was awarded on Dec 15, 2023 and is scheduled for completion on Dec 14, 2026. As part of this project, the University of Wisconsin System has sub-awarded funding to Loyola University of...
The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. was awarded a $935,999 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency on April 15, 2023 to complete work by April 14, 2027. The grant is part of the agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), which supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research to transform military and public health care through innovative solutions for battlefield medicine and other priorities. Specifically, this award will fund research into...
The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) was awarded a $1,046,468 Project Grant by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant, awarded on July 1, 2023, will fund research to investigate chemotherapy dosing in obese patients, with the goal of optimally balancing risks and benefits to avoid overtreatment and undertreatment. The research will be conducted at MCW's facilities in Milwaukee, WI and is expected to be completed by...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive $1.17 million over four years through a Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program. The grant will fund research to interrogate the intersection of prostate-specific membrane antigen and PI3K pathway signaling as a novel treatment approach for treatment-resistant prostate cancer. The University will investigate medical solutions for prostate cancer with the goals of transforming patient...
This $1,535,039 federal Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development Program (CFDA 12.420) supports research conducted by Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS) to study how the breast tissue microbiota regulates immune checkpoint blockade therapy responsiveness in triple-negative breast cancer. The research aims to advance scientific understanding and develop new treatment approaches for this aggressive form of breast cancer that...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive $1,145,080 under a three-year Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command's Military Medical Research and Development program. The grant will fund research from February 2021 to January 2024 to therapeutically target a lipid kinase regulator of mutant p53 in breast cancer. Through this award provided by the CFDA 12.420 program, the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to investigate medical solutions for the battlefield and...
The Baylor College of Medicine will use a $1.6 million Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency to research germline variants and population-wide breast cancer risk. The grant was awarded on February 1, 2023 under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). Through basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research, this project aims to transform healthcare for service members and the public by investigating medical solutions for the battlefield and developing...
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $699,726 Project Grant to The Washington University Office of Sponsored Research Services Division in St. Louis, Missouri. The grant, titled "BEYOND BREAST DENSITY: NOVEL CLINICALLY RELEVANT RISK MEASURES FOR BREAST CANCER IN BLACK WOMEN," is funded through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) and will run from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2026. This federal grant supports biomedical...