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FUNDED GRANTS OVERVIEW
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Over three million dollars ($3,000,000) in grants have been funded:
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Ninety (90) Discovery Grants have been awarded
to innovative projects of investigators associated with respected medical
institutions, as seed money for new directions in much-needed research into the
cause and treatment of leukemia and allied cancers.
Subsequently resulting in . . .
Over 130 Million Dollars ($130,000,000) in total grants from other
sources awarded to many of the Discovery Grant projects and their principal
investigators, enabling the continuation of their innovative research.
Ten (10) Endowed Research Fellows Have Been Funded
resulting in twelve (12) studies. The Lauri Strauss Leukemia and Allied Cancer
Research Fellowship Endowment is established and fully funded at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Sixteen (16) Grand Round Lectures have been delivered
by physicians of note within the fields of hematology and oncology at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Fifty six (56) Marrow Donor Drives have been sponsored
the drives are held in conjunction with blood drives and are organized with the
assistance of The New York Blood Center. Our 1999 drive found a donor-patient
match.
Ten (10) awards toward pain and palliative care service
have been funded
undertaken at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Calvary Hospital,
Bronx NY.
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2008 Grant Recipients |
Filiz Sen, MD
New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Title FBN7 Mutations in T Cell ALL
This Grant made possible by Mary Jo and John Boler
In Memory of Helen DeGulis
Angela Stoddart, PhD
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Determining the Transforming Mechanism of the CLAM-AF10 fusion Protein: Does Defective
Endocytosis Synergize with Transcriptional Deregulation?
This Grant Made Possible by Mary Jo and John Boler
In Memory of Richard J. Giffels
Lili Wang, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Title Mechanisms of Chromosomal Translocation in B Lymphocytes
This Grant made possible by Mary Jo and John Boler
In Memory of Patricia Winkel
Eleana Levantini, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass
Development of transgenic models to mimic human leukemias: the BVR/ABL case
Ford Motor Company Fund and The Johnny Mercer Foundation for their assistance in making this grant possible.
Camile P. Semighini, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Use of reversible RNA interference in transgenic mice to study the importance of RB and ATM in tumor
development, maintenance and response to therapy.
Ambassador Felix Schnyder Memorial Grant
In Memory of Ambassador Felix Schnyder
Carlo Calissano, MD
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research,
North Shore – LIJ Health Systems, Manhasset, NY
Identification and characterization of chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells and their normal B
lymphocyte counterpart
Ambassador Felix Schnyder Memorial Grant
In Memory of Ambassador Felix Schnyder
James L. LaBelle, M.D., PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Title Dismantling the Apoptotic Blockade of Refractory Leukemia by Pharmacologic Replacement of
the Tumor Suppressor BIM
This Grant Made Possible by Muriel Fusfeld Foundation |
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