Project Grant R44CA310160
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded Lifengine Animal Health Laboratories Incorporated a $400,000 Project Grant under the Cancer Treatment Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.395). The award period runs from August 4, 2025 to July 31, 2026. The grant funds the development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapies that can overcome functional exhaustion by overexpressing the C-MYB transcription factor. This research aims to improve the therapeutic efficacy and duration of...
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded a $305,031 Project Grant to Round Table Research, Inc. under the Cancer Treatment Research program (CFDA 93.395) to advance extracellular vesicle (EV) therapy for the treatment of glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer. The funded project, conducted in collaboration with researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, seeks to develop engineered tumoricidal EVs derived from induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) as a promising...
- The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a $398,997 Project Grant under the Cancer Treatment Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.395) to Immunogenik, Inc. to enhance cancer therapeutics with a novel 3-in-1 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell approach. The research aims to target tumor-associated myeloid cells, which can suppress anti-tumor immune responses, by inhibiting the immunosuppressive LAIR1 signaling pathway. Key deliverables include demonstrating the efficacy of LAIR1...
- This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.395 - Cancer Treatment Research) provides $2,253,869 to Celdara Medical, LLC to develop CM-HZ01, a novel non-alpha-IL2 therapeutic for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. The funding supports advancing CM-HZ01 to the Investigational New Drug (IND) application stage, with the goal of providing a best-in-class immunotherapy for patients with limited effective treatment options for this deadly form of skin cancer. The project...
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded a $306,871 Project Grant to Vivere Oncotherapies, Inc. under the Cancer Treatment Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.395) to advance the development of their OV-151 oncolytic virotherapy product for the treatment of colorectal cancer. The project aims to: 1) characterize the delivery properties of the OV-151 clinical vector to tumors, 2) optimize the therapeutic cargo delivered by the vector, and 3) develop an inducible promoter to enhance...
- This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.395 - Cancer Treatment Research) provides $1,031,566 to Mucommune LLC to develop in vivo-engineered B7-H3 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells for ovarian cancer therapy. The project aims to leverage a novel viral vector system to directly engineer circulating T-cells in the body, rather than harvesting, modifying, and expanding them ex vivo. This approach has the potential to reduce the time and cost of CAR-T therapy...
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $400,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.395 - Cancer Treatment Research) to Nuago Therapeutics Inc. on September 19, 2024. The goal of this STTR project is to develop an RNA interference-based therapeutic to treat prostate cancer. The therapeutic, termed "NU002", will use lipopolyplex nanoparticles to deliver short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) derived from CAG trinucleotide repeat sequences....
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.394), awarded a $399,444 Project Grant to Cancure LLC (Canzx Biotherapeutics) on August 1, 2025. The funding will support a feasibility study of a novel agent that aims to stimulate NK (natural killer) and CD8 T cells for potential use in treating solid tumors. The study seeks to address challenges with persistence and sustained function of these cell-based therapies in the solid...
- This $306,265 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.395 - Cancer Treatment Research) on September 16, 2025, will fund the preclinical development of VAX024 - a novel, second-generation recombinant bacterial minicell-based targeted oncolytic in situ immunization (ISI) agent. VAX024 is designed to overcome limitations of current oncolytic viral therapies by leveraging the grantee's proprietary delivery technology to generate a sterile, user-friendly oncolytic...
- This $414,803 Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.395 - Cancer Treatment Research) supports research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop improved T cell receptor (TCR) engineering strategies for TCR-T cell cancer immunotherapy. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Implementing high-throughput library screens of TCR constant region variants to identify mutations that can improve TCR signaling strength, with...
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded Gigamune, Inc. a $400,000 Project Grant under the Cancer Treatment Research program (CFDA 93.395) to develop a novel lentiviral vector for enhanced in vivo delivery of T cell receptors for cell therapy to treat Stage IV melanoma. The project aims to address challenges with current autologous T cell therapies, such as high costs and limited manufacturing capacity, by engineering innovative gene delivery methods to potentially increase patient access to effective treatments. The funding will support Gigamune's research to identify and validate novel high-avidity T cell receptors against melanoma-associated targets and develop their proprietary "GigaLenti" lentiviral vector platform for targeted in vivo delivery of these receptors to T cells. The award period runs from September 2025 through August 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $400.0k | 9/12/25 |