This $1,175,982 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports a telehealth intervention aimed at improving quality of life and pancreatic cancer survivorship. The grant, awarded to the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, a nonprofit research organization, will fund the development and implementation of this telehealth program over a 3-year period from August 2024 to July 2027. The project will leverage...
This federal Project Grant award of $144,018.00 from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) will support the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope in conducting a telehealth intervention to impact quality of life and pancreatic cancer survivorship. The award period runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The Project Grant aims to develop and evaluate a telehealth-based intervention to improve outcomes for pancreatic...
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) awarded a $999,997 project grant under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program to the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope for the "PERIOPERATIVE OSTOMY SELF-MANAGEMENT TELEHEALTH INTERVENTION FOR CANCER SURVIVORS" project. The grant, awarded on September 15, 2024, will fund research to develop a telehealth intervention to support self-management for cancer survivors with ostomies. As a nonprofit medical research...
This Project Grant award of $1,759,998.00 from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports research by the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope to potentiate T cell activity against multiple myeloma through inhibition of sumoylation. The research aims to transform healthcare for Service Members and the American public through innovative and impactful work. The award term runs from Aug 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2026. As a...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $472,500.00 and funded by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, supports the development of a next-generation, off-the-shelf, CAR-NKT cell therapy for the treatment of metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma. The award, granted to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), will fund advanced biomedical research and clinical trials focused on transforming healthcare for military...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $778,092 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (DFCI) in Boston, MA. The grant supports the advancement of preclinical studies for a dual-targeted fine-tuned immune-restoring (DFIR) CAR-T cell therapy to achieve cures for high-grade serous ovarian cancer. The project aims to develop innovative CAR-T cell-based immunotherapies to improve treatment outcomes for this...
This Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $1,181,683 to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA to conduct research aimed at enhancing immune checkpoint blockade responsiveness and tertiary lymphoid structure formation through CD4+TFHx13 CAR-T cells to achieve cures for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC). The research will involve experimental design and computational analysis of...
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $447,612 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope. The grant supports the development of a "highly tumor-specific oncolytic virus in combination with a viral protein-target T cell engager for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer." The award period runs from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. As a nonprofit...
This Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency provides $979,875 to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. for research under the Military Medical Research and Development program. The award aims to further optimize dual-targeted CAR T cells to achieve cures for advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC) by fine-tuning CAR constructs against carbonic anhydrase IX and CD70 antigens based on tumor expression levels. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. will receive a sub-award to...
This $1,354,428 Project Grant awarded by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) will fund a family-centered e-health intervention to promote patient and caregiver well-being in adolescent and emerging adult pediatric brain tumor survivors. The grant was awarded to the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, which will serve as the prime awardee. The project duration is from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028. The...