2025 Research Grant Recipients

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In 2025, in partnership with our generous donors and supporters, three research grants have been awarded totaling $612,000. Grantees were selected through a peer-review process. One grant was awarded to an investigator for support of his early detection strategies for higher-risk populations. Two young scientists were awarded fellowships to fuel their early career and their pancreatic cancer research.

Please join us in welcoming this year’s grantees:

Early Career Investigator Award Recipients

Alice Dejoux, PhD

2025 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Fellowship, funded by the Francois Wallace Monahan Fund in memory of Michael Insel
Alice Dejoux, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Decoding and leveraging autoantibodies to the dark genome proteins in pancreatic cancer
Jérémy Nigri, PhD2025 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Fellowship, funded by the Francois Wallace Monahan Fund in memory of Michael Insel
Jérémy Nigri, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
CAF-driven sensory innervation and pain in pancreatic cancer progress

Early Detection Research Project

Bechien Wu, MD, MPH2025 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Catalyst Award
Bechien Wu, MD, MPH
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Prediction algorithms for early detection of pancreatic cancer in an integrated health system: a clinical pilot program