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Brett Stewart Carver

Urologic Oncology Research Training Grant

Kidney, renal pelvis and ureter

Jose Baselga

Unraveling resistance to PI3K-alpha inhibitors in breast cancer

Charles L. Sawyers

Understanding Resistance to Next Generation Antiandrogens

Jennifer Q Zhang

Tyrosine kinase inhibition and immunomodulation for cancer

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Ronald G Blasberg

Tumor microenvironment: Impact on T cell tumor-targeting, activation and survival

Charles L. Sawyers

Translational Research in Oncology Training Program

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Hans-Guido Wendel

Towards the Chemotherapy-Free Treatment of Follicular Lymphoma

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Hodgkin lymphoma

Mary Philip

The Role of Heme Metabolic Pathways in T Cell Development and T Cell Lymphomagene

Michael H. Overholtzer

The role of entosis in human cancers

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Simon N Powell

The Response to a Site-Specific Blocked DNA Replication Fork in Human Cancers

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Kailey E. Roberts

The Preliminary Development and Content Validation of a Bereavement Risk Screening Tool

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Palliative Care

Richard R Barakat

The Lymphedema and Gynecologic Cancer (LEG) Study: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Impact

Corpus uteri Cervix uteri

Surgery / Surgical oncology

Joan Massague

TGFB-SMAD Signaling in Stem Cell Differentiation and Tumor Suppression

Colorectum Breast

Mark G. Kris

Targets for Therapy for Carcinomas of the Lung

Trachea, bronchus and lung

Scott A Armstrong

Targeting to Epigenetic Modications in ALL

Alan L. Ho

Targeting MEK to Restore Radioiodine Efficacy for RAI-Refractory Thyroid Cancer

Kevin Charles Oeffinger

Survivorship: Mentoring and Bridging Primary Care and Oncology

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Pediatric oncology or childhood cancer

Ronald P Dematteo

Surgical Oncology Research Training Grant

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Surgery / Surgical oncology

Jedd D. Wolchok

Summer research experiences for medical students supervised by faculty mentors

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Johannes Zakrzewski

Strategies to enhance thymus-independent T cell development in cancer patients

Colin B Begg

Statistical Strategies for Establishing Etiologic Heterogeneity of Tumors

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

James A Fagin

SPORE in Thyroid Cancer

Howard I Scher

SPORE In Prostate Cancer

Talya Salz

Simplifying Care for the Complex Cancer Survivor

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Ross L Levine

Role of TET2 mutations in malignant transformation and acute myeloid leukemia

Timothy An-Thy Chan

Role of Parkinsons disease gene PARK2 in GBM oncogenesis and genomic instability

Brain, nervous system

Craig B Thompson

Role of IDH Mutations in Acute Myeloid Malignancies

Omar Abdel-Wahab

Role of ASXL1 mutations in myeloid malignancies

Michelle S Bradbury

Renally Excreted Multimodal Core-Shell Silica Nanoparticles as Tumor-Selective Ra

Melanoma of skin

Palliative Care

Scott Henry Olejniczak

Reciprocal regulation of microRNAs and cancer-associated signaling pathways

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Lee W Jones

Randomized Trial of Optimal Type of Aerobic Training in Breast Cancer

Edward R Kastenhuber

Intratumoral Heterogeneity and Tumor Evolution in Lymphoma

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Hodgkin lymphoma

Jamie S Ostroff

Psychosocial Palliative & Community Research in Cancer

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Palliative Care

Hans Lilja

Prospective validation of a multi-marker prostate cancer prediction model

Larry Norton

Program Project in Models of Breast Cancer

Amita Dave

Predictive MRI metrics for tumor aggressiveness in micropapillary thyroid cancer

Dustin Wayne Demoin

pHLIP-based agents for pre-, intra-, and post-operative imaging and therapy of breast cancer

Jennifer L Hay

Personalized Genomic Testing for Melanoma: Maximizing Personal Utility and Reach

Melanoma of skin

Milind Rajadhyaksha

Peri-operative confocal imaging-guided laser ablation of basal cell carcinomas

Non-Melanoma skin cancer

John Koren

Novel Combination Therapeutic Strategies to Ablate Resistance to Hsp90 Inhibitors

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Carol Aghajanian

Network Lead Academic Participating Site: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Steven Mark Larson

MSKCC Center for Molecular Imaging in Cancer

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Simon N Powell

MSK Paul Calabresi Career Development Award for Clinical Oncology

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Moritz Florian Kircher

MRI-Photoacoustic-Raman Nanostars for Pre- and Intraoperative Multimodal Imaging

Brain, nervous system

Jonine L. Bernstein

MRI Background Parenchymal Enhancement as a Risk Factor for Breast Cancer

James J-D Hsieh

Molecular Mechanisms of Impaired DAN Damage Response in Leukemia Pathogenesis

Ronald P Dematteo

Molecular Mechanisms in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor

Geulah Yevgeniya Livshits

Mechanisms of tumor suppression by epigenetic regulators in pancreatic cancer

Oakley C Olson

Mechanisms of Macrophage Mediated Chemoprotection in Breast Cancer

Babak Mehrara Mehrara

Mechanisms of fibrosis and lymphatic dysfunction in post-surgical lymphedema

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Richard J Wong

Mechanisms of cancer cell chemotaxis in perineural invasion

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Emily Casey

Mechanisms of Action of a TCR-like mAb Directed Against WT1

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

David A Scheinberg

Mechanisms of action of a TCR-like antibody to WT1

Filippo G Giancotti

Mechanisms governing metastatic reactivation of breast cancer.

Xuejun Jiang

Mechanisms and Function of Autophagy in Cancer

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

William Breitbart

Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy Training for Cancer Care Providers

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Palliative Care

Michelle S Bradbury

MCKCC-Cornell Center for Translation of Cancer Nanomedicines

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Scott James Callahan

Malignant melanoma studies using iPS derived melanocytes and Zebrafish

Melanoma of skin

Stephen Barnett Solomon

Irreversible Electroporation Ablation for Colorectal Metastases to the Lung

Surgery / Surgical oncology

Mark G. Kris

Investigational Cancer Therapeutics Training Program

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

William Breitbart

Individual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy in Advanced Cancer Patients

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Michael R Mcdevitt

Improving therapy of glioblastoma multiforme by enhancing therapeutic drug delive

Brain, nervous system

Alexander Y. Rudensky

Immunology Research Training

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

David R Spriggs

Immunologic Approaches to Ovarian Cancer

Richard John O'Reilly

Immunobiology for Marrow Allografts for Leukemia

Paul Tempst

Immobilized protease activity tests for developing functional cancer biomarkers.

Vladimir Ponomarev

Imaging T-cell Activation and Co-stimulation in Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy

Ronald G Blasberg

Imaging and Targeting Metastatic-Prone Breast Cancer

Charles M. Rudin

Identification and validation of synthetic lethality in KRAS mutant lung adenocarcinoma patient derived xenografts

Trachea, bronchus and lung

Jiangbin Ye

Hypoxia induces SHMT2 to regulate cellular redox and epigenetics

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Nancy Y Lee

Hypoxia Image-Guided Radiation Therapy

Other pharynx Oesophagus Nasopharynx Lip, oral cavity Larynx

Radiation Oncology

Malcolm C Pike

Hormonal effects on fallopian tube and ovary inclusion cysts, and ovarian cancer

Maria Jasin

HOMOLOGY-DIRECTED DNA REPAIR PROTEINS BRCA2 AND RAD51 IN TUMOR RELEVANT TISSUES

Marilyn D Resh

Hedgehog Acyltransferase as a target in cancer

Richard J Wong

Head and Neck Training Program in Surgical Oncology

Other pharynx Oesophagus Nasopharynx Lip, oral cavity Larynx

Zsofia Kinga Stadler

Germline Susceptibility in Double Primary Cancers via Nexy-Generation Sequencing

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Luc Gordon Trang Morris

Functionalizing recurrent FAT1 mutations and deletions in oral cancer

Lip, oral cavity

Emily Smith Tonorezos

Exercise and QUality diet After Leukemia

Pediatric oncology or childhood cancer

Jamie S Ostroff

Empathic Physician Communication and Stigma in Lung Cancer Patients

Trachea, bronchus and lung

Ping Chi

Elucidating the roles of ETV1 in the pathogenesis of GIST

Piro Lito

Elucidating the regulation of mitosis by BRAF V600E in lung cancer

Trachea, bronchus and lung

Timothy An-Thy Chan

Elucidating the function of the widely inactivated phosphatase PTPRD in the molec

Brain, nervous system

Timothy An-Thy Chan

Elucidating and targeting the molecular foundations of IDH mutant glioma

Brain, nervous system

Andrew J Vickers

Dynamic, multi-cohort prediction modeling of prostate biopsy outcome

Eusebio Manchado-Robles

Drivers and dependencies as therapeutic targets in KRAS-mutant lung cancers

Trachea, bronchus and lung

Maria Jasin

Double-strand break repair and Translocations in mammalian cells

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Talya Salz

Do cardiovascular risk factors modify the cardiotoxicity of lymphoma treatments?

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Hodgkin lymphoma

Christine Mayr

Dissecting the role of alternative 3UTRs in cancer with 3-seq

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Jacob Houghton

Developing an Anti-sialyl-Lewisa Diabody for ImmunoPET Imaging of Pancreas Cancer

David B. Solit

Defining the temporal sequence of PI3K pathway mutations in bladder cancer

Charles L. Sawyers

Defining the Role of ERG in Modulating the AR Cistrome and Antiandrogen Sensitivity

Brett Stewart Carver

Defining Response and Resistance to PI3K and AR inhibition in Prostate Cancer

Ronglai Shen

Defining a novel subtype of luminal-TP53 mutant breast cancer with poor prognosis

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Rohit Prakash

Deciphering the epistatic relationships of RAD51 Paralogs in mammary epithelium

Rosario Costas

Cultural Adaptation of IMCP for Latino Patients with Advanced Cancer

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Ann Graham Zauber

Comparative Modeling of Colorectal Cancer: Informing Health Policies and Prioritizing Future Research

Steven Horwitz

Communication Skills Intervention to Promote Transition into Survivorship

Hodgkin lymphoma

Moritz Florian Kircher

Combined Pre & Intraoperative Brain Tumor Imaging Strategy using a Dual-Modality

Brain, nervous system

Tim Alan Ahles

Cognition In Older Breast Cancer Survivors: Treatment Exposure, APOE, & Smoking

Lisa C Diamond

Clinician Use of Non-English Language Skills in Cancer Care

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Augustin Luna

Chemogenomic Analysis of the NCI Therapeutic Compound Database

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Michael Kharas

Characterizing MSI2 in leukemia

Jan Grimm

Cerenkov luminescence imaging for image-guided cancer surgery

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Surgery / Surgical oncology

Christopher Y Park

Cellular and molecular basis of microRNA-29a Induced Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Tim Alan Ahles

CCNY-MSKCC Partnership for Cancer Research Training & Community Outreach (1 of 2

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Peter J Allen

Biomarker validation for intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas

Efsevia Vakiani

Biological characterization of matched primary colorectal carcinomas & metastases

Gil Redelman-Sidi

BCG therapy of bladder cancer: the role of BCG uptake by bladder cancer cells

Angela Parrish

Axin-induced Wnt signaling in mouse embryogenesis and Wnt-related cancers

Colorectum Breast

Emily H Cheng

Apoptotic Network Integrated at the Mitochondrion

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Lee W Jones

Aerobic Training During or After Adjuvant Therapy: A Randomized Trial

Alex Kentsis

Aberrant activation of HGF/MET signaling as a therapeutic target in AML

Jamie S Ostroff

2/2 The TREND Partnership: Tobacco Research and Education to Eliminate Disparities

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Christine A Iacobuzio-Donahue

(PQB6) Genetics of Subclonal Evolution in Pancreatic Cancer

Lee W Jones

(PQA5) Dose and Mechanisms of Exercise in Breast Cancer Prevention

Minkui Luo

Profile substrates and inhibitors of protein lysine methyltransferase

Melanoma of skin All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Marcel R M Van Den Brink

IL-22 in Thymic Regeneration

Jason S Lewis

Annotating Oncogene Status in Prostate Cancer with Zr-89-transferrin PET

Olusegun I Alatise

Point of Care Urine Based Screening for Colorectal Cancers and Polyps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Peter Kingham

African Research Group for Oncology Breast Cancer Studies in Nigeria

Peter Kingham

Determining Demographics of Colorectal Cancer in Nigeria

Peter Kingham

Identifying Early Stage Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Chimo Asuzu

A Pilot Study of Patients With Cancer and Their Traditional Healers: an Approach to Potentially Reducing Delay in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Prostate Cervix uteri Breast

Marianne Berwick

Genes, Environment and Melanoma (GEM) - Etiology and Progression

Melanoma of skin

Scott W Lowe

The impact of chromosome 17p lesions on leukemogeneis and therapy response

Hematology and hematologic malignancies Pathology

Dimitar B Nikolov

Function-blocking anti-ADAM protease antibodies for inhibition of tumorigenesis - NY

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Hodgkin lymphoma Breast

David C Lyden

Characterization and Functional Analysis of Breast Cancer Secreted Exosomes in Ma

Milind Rajadhyaksha

Automated Image Guidance for Diagnosing Skin Cancer With Confocal Microscopy

Melanoma of skin

Steven M Lipkin

Whole Genome Sequencing to Discover Familial Myeloma Risk Genes

Multiple myeloma and immunoproliferative diseases

Hematology and hematologic malignancies

Alison P Klein

Validation and Fine-Scale Mapping of Pancreatic Cancer Susceptibility Loci

Nan Zhu

The Role of Jmjd1c in Normal and Leukemic Hematopoiesis

Hematology and hematologic malignancies Pathology Pediatric oncology or childhood cancer

Robert I Benezra

The Role of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Tumor Growth and Metastasis

Trachea, bronchus and lung Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Melanoma of skin Breast

Maurizio Scaltriti

The Possible Role of the Novel Akt 3 R247C Mutation in Opposing to Anti-HER2 Ther

Carol Prives

Roles and Regulation of p53

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Breast Bladder

Hans Lilja

Prospective Validation of a Multi-Marker Prostate Cancer Prediction Model

Julio Garcia-Aguilar

Organ Preservation in Rectal Adenocarcinoma

Radiation Oncology

Mark B Faries

Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial (MSLT II) in Melanoma

Melanoma of skin

Pathology Surgery / Surgical oncology

James A Fagin

Molecular Pathophysiology of Thyroid Cell Growth

Ann G Zauber

Modeling Effective Health Policies for Colorectal Cancer

Nancy E Thomas

Melanoma RAS/BRAF Mutation: Heterogeneity-Risk-Prognosis

Melanoma of skin

Wendy G Lichtenthal

Meaning-Centered Grief Therapy for Parents Bereaved by Cancer

All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Edwin G Wilkins

Mastectomy Reconstruction Outcome Consortium (MROC Study)

Jonine L Bernstein

Mammographic Density and Risk of Contralateral Breast Cancer

Radiation Oncology

Melissa L Bondy

International Case Control Study of Malignant Glioma

Brain, nervous system

Susan J Ramus

Identifying Prognostic Markers and Therapeutic Targets for Serous Ovarian Cancer

Fergus J Couch

Identifying and Validating Novel Susceptibility Genes for Breast Cancer

Lois B Travis

Genetic Susceptibility and Biomarkers of Platinum-related Toxicities

Iannis Aifantis

Genetic Dissection of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Hematology and hematologic malignancies Pathology

Andrew J Vickers

Dynamic, Multi-Cohort Prediction Modeling of Prostate Biopsy Outcome

Mark R Conaway

Designs for Phase I Trials in Heterogeneous Groups

All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Philip A Bialer

Communication Skills Education Program for Oncology

All cancers but non-melanoma skin cancer

Pediatric oncology or childhood cancer

Sean V Tavtigian

Classifying DNA Mismatch Repair Gene Variants of Unknown Significance

Claudia Fischbach

Breast Microcalcifications and their Role in Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis

Ronald T Mitsuyasu

AIDS Malignancy Clinical Trials Consortium (AMC)

Trachea, bronchus and lung Other pharynx Oesophagus Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Nasopharynx Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts Kidney, renal pelvis and ureter Kaposi sarcoma Hodgkin lymphoma Colorectum Cervix uteri

John V Frangioni

(PQC-5) Zwitterionic NIR/Zr-89 Agents for Prostate Cancer Staging and Treatment

Pathology Surgery / Surgical oncology