2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Research Grants

More Than $5 Million in Research Grants Awarded by the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network in 2013

Research grant funding from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network totaled more than $5 million in 2013, representing the largest annual disbursement the organization has made since the introduction of its research grant program in 2003. To date, the organization has awarded nearly $18 million through 94 research grants to outstanding researchers at some of the most prestigious institutions around the country.

As part of the $5 million in grants distributed this year, two inaugural $1 million Research Acceleration Network (RAN) grants were awarded.

We invite you to read the profiles of each of our distinguished grantee recipients listed below, as well as our press release about the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network 2013 grants program.

2013 Research Grants

2013 Samuel Stroum – Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Fellowship Andrew Aguirre, MD, PhD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Validation of Novel KRAS Synthetic Lethal Targets in Pancreatic Cancer

2013 Abby Sobrato – Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Innovative Grant Yves Boucher, PhD Harvard Medical School Targeting Desmoplasia in Pancreatic Cancer to Improve Drug Efficacy

2013 Skip Viragh – Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Inaugural Research Acceleration Network Grant Michael Goggins, MD, Johns Hopkins University Co-PI: Anil Rustgi, MD, University of Pennsylvania Co-PI: Marcia Canto, MD, Johns Hopkins University CAPS multicenter trial: Imaging and markers for pancreatic cancer screening

2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Career Development Award Eric Lutz, PhD Johns Hopkins University Exploiting the cancer mutome for personalized tumor immunotherapy

2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Pathway to Leadership Grant Costas Lyssiotis, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College Exploration and Targeting of Metabolic Dependencies in Pancreatic Cancer

2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Pathway to Leadership Grant Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD New York University Immunomodulatory mechanisms in Kras-driven pancreatic cancer and metastasis

2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Career Development Award Andrew Rhim, MD University of Michigan Using human circulating pancreas cells as a biomarker for early PDAC

2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Innovative Grant M. Celeste Simon, PhD University of Pennsylvania Role of Hif1a in inflammation, tissue repair, and cancer of the pancreas

2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Career Development Award Pankaj Singh, PhD University of Nebraska Targeting a novel metabolic chemoresistance mechanism in pancreatic cancer

2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Career Development Award Daolin Tang, MD, PhD University of Pittsburgh Role of HMGB1 in Pancreatic Cancer Initiation and Progression

2013 Tempur-Pedic – Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Inaugural Research Acceleration Network Grant in Memory of Tim Miller Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, University of Pennsylvania Co-PI: Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD, New York University Accelerating Development of CD40 Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer

2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Innovative Grant Timothy Wang, MD Columbia University Dclk1 in pancreatic tumorigenesis

2013 Blum-Kovler Foundation – Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Innovative Grant Valerie Weaver, PhD University of California, San Francisco Interplay between tension and inflammation in pancreatic tumor progression

2013 Skip Viragh – Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – AACR Career Development Award Monte Winslow, PhD Stanford University Molecular Dissection of Hmga2 Function during Pancreatic Cancer Progression