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2020 Awardees
Award Type: Pilot
Pi: Jill Bargonetti | Hunter College | Biological Sciences
Co-Pi: Melissa Davis | WCM | Department of Surgery
Co-Pi: Maria Martin | WCM | Radiation Oncology
Title of Proposal: Pan-Cancer Organoid Models for Live Imaging Gain-of-Function Mutant p53
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Award Type: Pilot
Pi: Lewis Cantley | WCM | Medicine
Co-Pi: David Scheinberg | MSKCC | Experimental Therapeutics Center
Co-Pi: Sandra Demaria | WCM | Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Title of Proposal: The Effects of Radiotherapy on the Presentation of Phosphorylated Antigens by Cancer Cells
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Award Type: Pilot
Pi: Giorgio Inghirami | WCM | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Co-Pi: Hans-Guido Wendel | MSKCC | Cancer Biology & Genetics
Title of Proposal: Liquid Biopsy ScrEffector-based therapeutic strategies for the treatment of colon cancers screening for HPV-associated Cancers in Persons Living with HIV
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Award Type: Special Population Pilot
Pi: Daniel Higginson | MSKCC | Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
Co-Pi: Timothy Wilkin | WCM | Medicine/Infectious Diseases
Title of Proposal: Liquid Biopsy Screening for HPV-associated Cancers in Persons Living with HIV
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Award Type: Special Population Pilot
Pi: Joseph Fins | WCM | Medicine
Co-Pi: Scott Klein | Brythedale Childrens Hospital | Medicine
Co-Pi: Debjani Mukherjee | WCM | Medicine
Title of Proposal: Assistive Technology in Pediatric Brain Injury following In-patient Rehabilitation: Access, Barriers and Burdens on Patients and Families
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Award Type: Novel Technology Team Pilot
Pi: Thomas Reiner | MSKCC | Radiology and Chemical Biology
Co-Pi: Dianna Willis | Burke Neurological Institute | Laboratory for Axonal and RNA Biology
Co-Pi: Heiko Schoder | MSKCC | Radiology
Title of Proposal: Quantiative Imaging of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
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Award Type: Community Pilot
Pi: Jennie Ono | WCM | Pediatrics
Co-Pi: Josephine Pizzurro | St. Mary's Health Care | Radiology
Title of Proposal: Evaluation of a remote asthma monitoring program to improve health outcomes in pediatric asthma
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Award Type: Community Pilot
Pi: Katarzyna Wyka | CUNY School of Public Health | Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Co-Pi: Matthew Ryba | Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum | Community Development
Title of Proposal: Improving Linkage to Evidence-Based Care for Underserved Veteran Populations Through Community Partnerships
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