The federal Project Grant award of $2,136,000.00 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The award is focused on "REVERSIBILITY AND THERAPEUTIC TARGETING OF TREATMENT- EMERGENT NEUROENDOCRINE PROSTATE CANCER" and will be performed by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Dfci) located in Boston, MA. The grant supports advanced biomedical research aimed at transforming healthcare for military service members,...
Under the $534,000.00 Project Grant awarded by the Defense Health Agency through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (doing business as DFCI) will conduct research to define the role of the androgen receptor in BRCA1/2-deficient prostate cancer. This translational research aims to improve understanding of disease dependencies and develop new treatment approaches for this challenging cancer type. DFCI, a non-profit hospital...
The Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) has awarded a $889,995.00 Project Grant to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (dba Dfci), a non-profit hospital and cancer research center in Boston, MA. The grant, effective June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2027, supports research to "dissect the interplay of molecular and spatial architectures with clinical states in prostate cancer." This federal funding will enable Dana-Farber to conduct...
The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $945,271 project grant to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The three-year award beginning July 1, 2021 will fund research to functionally characterize the noncoding genome of metastatic prostate cancer and identify therapeutic vulnerabilities. Dana-Farber will work with Stichting Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis to construct a...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $4,991,950.00, was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant is funding the "INVESTIGATION OF A MULTICANCER EARLY DETECTION TEST IN A HIGH-RISK MILITARY POPULATION" at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (DFCI) in Boston, Massachusetts. The project aims to develop and evaluate a novel multicancer early detection test for use within a high-risk military...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,424,000.00 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Dfci) in Boston, MA. The grant is supporting research to "EXPANDING THE TARGETABLE TUMOR ANTIGEN REPERTOIRE OF RENAL CELL CARCINOMA" over the performance period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2029. Dfci, a renowned non-profit cancer research and treatment center, will leverage...
The Defense Health Agency has awarded a $4,954,747 Project Grant to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (doing business as Dfci) to conduct research under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant, titled "Novel Immunologic Discovery Platforms to Prevent Metastasis and Recurrence in Breast Cancer," will fund a four-year research project focused on developing new immunology-based approaches to prevent the spread and return of breast cancer. As a...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,028,000.00, awarded on April 1, 2025 by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports advanced biomedical research aimed at identifying epigenetically driven vulnerabilities in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The award was granted to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a prominent academic medical center and research institution in New York City. Through this...
The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $178,000.00 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant is funding research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (DFCI) in Boston, Massachusetts to target the Merkel ST-MYCL-EP400 complex in Merkel cell carcinoma. The research aims to develop innovative approaches to the understanding, detection, and treatment of this rare and aggressive form of skin cancer...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,036,233 Project Grant to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from July 2021 through June 2024 to develop more precise molecular classification and targeted treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (MCRPC) through multi-omic analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). By leveraging ctDNA analysis, the research aims to transform...