This federal Project Grant award of $125,619.00 from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.393 - Cancer Cause and Prevention Research) supports research by the Stowers Institute for Medical Research to investigate the relationship between natural variations in human centromeric DNA sequences and chromosome segregation accuracy. The research team is utilizing cutting-edge genomic, cytogenetic, and high-resolution microscopy techniques to map centromeric sequences and associated kinetochore...
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded a $581,381 Project Grant under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research program (CFDA 93.393) to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. The 5-year grant, effective June 5, 2025, will fund research to investigate the role of microhomology-mediated end-joining (MMEJ) in mitosis and its impact on drug resistance in cancer. The key products of this research will be a better understanding of DNA damage repair pathways and how they contribute...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under CFDA Program 93.393 Cancer Cause and Prevention Research, supports research to investigate the role of the TIP60 chromatin remodeling complex in DNA double-strand break repair through homologous recombination. The $157,500 award to The Ohio State University will fund a 2-year project from July 2025 to June 2027. The research aims to delineate the epistatic relationships between the TIP60 complex subunits and...
This Project Grant award of $656,304 from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Biology Research program (CFDA 93.396) supports comprehensive research at Weill Medical College of Cornell University to better understand the fundamental biological mechanisms underlying cancer development, progression, and potential interventions. The research aims to: (i) determine how nuclear accumulation of GSK3, upon suppression of mTORC1 signaling, regulates chromatin remodeling and DNA damage repair;...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.396 Cancer Biology Research) provides $150,271 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to investigate the role of the protein kinase ADCK5 in ovarian cancer. The 2-year project, which began on September 20, 2023, aims to gain fundamental insights into the mechanisms underlying ovarian cancer, the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in the United States. The research seeks to identify potential new...
This Project Grant award of $432,614.00 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under the Cancer Research Manpower (CFDA 93.398) program supports research at Duke University to investigate the relationship between chromosomal instability, 17p loss, and NDE1 dependence in cancer cells. The goal is to define the genetic dependencies resulting from these factors and assess the therapeutic potential of targeting NDE1 in cancers with increased chromosomal instability and 17p loss. The award period...
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), under CFDA 93.396 - Cancer Biology Research, awarded a $449,726 project grant to the University of Illinois to develop tools that enable the rapid analysis of changes in protein interactions within living cells. The project aims to significantly improve the sensitivity and temporal resolution of existing proximity labeling approaches used to map dynamic protein interactomes. Key innovations include engineering biotin ligases that can label proteins with...
This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the federal Cancer Biology Research program (CFDA 93.396), is providing $344,111 to Loyola University of Chicago to conduct research on targeting panoptotic pathways for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The primary objectives are to investigate whether inhibition of RIPK1 and TBK1 can prevent MDS and eliminate mutant hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, thereby restoring blood cell counts and preventing...
The National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.396 - Cancer Biology Research) awarded a $571,496 Project Grant to the University of Toledo Health Science Campus Division to conduct research aimed at understanding the mechanisms by which the tumor-intrinsic TAZ expression regulates the tumor microenvironment and immune suppressive cells like myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The research project, titled "Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor-Induced...
The federal Project Grant award F31CA295091 is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the Cancer Research Manpower (CFDA 93.398) program. The $119,922 award supports research to investigate the role of the Fanconi Anemia (FA) pathway in driving a chromosomal abnormality called chromothripsis, which is frequently observed in cancer genomes. The research aims to comprehensively identify regions of micronucleated chromosomes undergoing FA pathway processing during mitosis, and to...