The Defense Health Agency awarded $561,888 to the University of California, Davis under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program for the project "Integrin-Targeting Transformable Nanomedicine for Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer." Through this two-year award beginning July 1, 2023, UC Davis will develop innovative nanomedicine approaches for treating non-small cell lung cancer. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports biomedical...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,412,826 Project Grant on September 1, 2023 to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Bidmc) to conduct research through the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant, titled "Identification of Risk and Early Detection Biomarkers for Liver Cancer," will support a 3-year study led by Dr. Towia Libermann at Bidmc, with a sub-award to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to assist with case...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $168,200 Project Grant to Health Research, Inc. Roswell Park Division under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to investigate alternative polyadenylation as a mediator of therapeutic resistance in lung cancer. The two-year award beginning July 1, 2021 will support research into innovative medical solutions for lung cancer treatment through the study of alternative polyadenylation, a novel area of investigation that could help...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $159,892 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.420). The grant supports research into "Metabolic Vulnerabilities Associated to G12C Inhibitor Resistance" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The Military Medical Research and Development program aims to transform military and public health through innovative medical research solutions. This award will...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $784,602 Project Grant to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (doing business as Dfci) under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will support research from January 2023 to January 2026 to develop next-generation immunotherapy for breast cancer by turning breast cancer cells against themselves. The Military Medical Research and Development program aims to transform military and public health through innovative medical...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $1,292,000.00 to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct in vivo mechanistic characterization of the angiogenic immune checkpoint in liver cancer. The research aims to transform healthcare for Service Members and the American public through innovative and impactful biomedical investigations. The 4-year research project will involve...
The federal Project Grant award of $1,214,375.00 from the Defense Health Agency, under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), is funding a research project led by Yale University. The project is investigating the use of decoy-resistant IL-18 and immune checkpoint inhibitors in preclinical murine and ex vivo patient-derived models of renal cell carcinoma. The award began on September 15, 2024 and is set to conclude on September 14, 2028. The Military Medical Research...
The U.S. Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,213,276 Project Grant to Yale University under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). This 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will fund research on the role of vascular mimicry in the outgrowth of dormant melanoma micrometastases. The goal of this research is to transform health care for Service Members and the American public through innovative and impactful medical research on solutions...
The Defense Health Agency has awarded a $1,581,751 Project Grant to Duke University to conduct the "THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION TO REVERSE GASTRIC PRECANCER" research project under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). This federal grant, with a performance period from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2028, will enable Duke University's researchers to investigate innovative therapeutic interventions to reverse precancerous gastric conditions. The Military Medical...
This $762,992 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports research by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to map and predict therapy resistance in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) using liquid biopsies. The 3-year award, effective July 1, 2024, will enable MD Anderson to conduct personalized analyses to better understand how SCLC tumors evolve and become resistant to treatment. This work aims to...