Pilot Program

The BU-BMC Cancer Center is invested in providing opportunities for access to pilot funding to highly-motived, innovative and collaborative investigators working in the field of cancer research.

A total of four pilot projects were funded in AY16. The funding for these projects was provided by an Institutional Research Grant from the American Cancer Society.

Investigator
Department
School                                                                 

Award Period

Pilot Project Title
Hiroshi Tokuo, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Physiology & Biophysics
Boston University School of Medicine
7/15-12/15 Mechanism of melanoma metastasis regulated by Myosin-X
Neil Ganem, MD
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Boston University School of Medicine
7/15-12/15 Defining gene expression signatures for YAJP/TAZ-dependent breast cancers
Jennifer Beane-Ebel, PhD
Assistant Professor Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
7/15-12/15 Establishing a preclinical model of squamous lung cancer to investigate novel chemopreventive approaches in high-risk smokers
Xuemei Zhong, PhD
Assistant Professor Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
7/15-12/15 Heat-triggered release of immunostimulatory chemokine for cancer immunotherapy
Lisa Quintiliani, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicine-General Internal, Med
Information Systems Unit
Boston University School of Medicine
4/14- 3/15 Obesity intervention development for cancer prevention among a health disparity population using innovative photovoice methodology*
Trevor Siggers, PhD
Assistant Professor Biology
Boston University College of
Arts and Science
4/14- 3/15 The role of LSF DNA binding in hepatocellular carcinoma and potential relationship to DNA binding of p53
Xaralabos (Bob) Varelas, PhD
Assistant Professor Biochemistry
Boston University School of Medicine
4/14- 3/15 Defining and Targeting Deregulated Polarity Cues in Breast Cancer
Dmitri Beglov, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering School of Engineering, Boston University
5/13-4/14 Computational Selection of Small Molecule Inhabitors of the elF4E:elF4G Protein-Protein Complex Involved in Cancer
Marjory Charlot, MD, MPH, MSc
Assistant Professor
Hematology/Oncology, Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
5/13-4/14 Impact of Type 2 Diabetes on Breast Cancer Outcomes in Black Women
Darren Roblyer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Engineering
Boston University
5/13-4/14 Real-Time Non-Invasive Optical Markers of Chemotherapy Response for Personalized Adaptive Cancer Treatment
Gregory A. Russo, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
Boston University School of Medicine
5/13-4/14 Feasibility/outcomes study of hypo fractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy as a boost to the prostate for treatment of localized, non-metastatic, high risk prostate cancer
Anurag Singh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Boston University School of Medicine
5/13-4/14 Identifying a kras-regulated micro-RNA signaling network in lung cancer
Hui Feng, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology
Boston University School of Medicine
4/12-3/13 Targeting DLST as a novel therapeutic intervention
Mikel Garcia-Marcos, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry
Boston University School of Medicine
4/12-3/13 Towards novel therapeutics for cancer metastasis by targeting a key signaling interface
Kimberly Shea, PhD
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
4/12-3/13 Vaccine Uptake of Cancer Survivors Identified in the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

*Special Interest Award.

American Cancer Society: Institutional Research Grant
Investigators are reminded to cite ACS support on any publications resulting from these awards.