{"id":1973,"date":"2019-05-08T13:21:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/?page_id=1973"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:39:13","slug":"__current_funded_investigators","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/cancercenter\/funding-opportunities-2\/acs-pilot-opportunity\/__current_funded_investigators\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Funded Investigators"},"content":{"rendered":"

2025 Recipients<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Allison Portnoy, MSPH, ScD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Global Health<\/em>
\n“lmpact and cost-effectiveness of self-collected human papillomavirus (HPV) testing among under-screened persons with a cervix in the United States: a modeling study”
\n 
\n\"\"<\/a>Thomas Clarke, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine<\/em>
\n“Investigating a novel DNA repair factor as a driver of therapy resistance in colorectal cancer”
\n <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Ignaty Leshchiner, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Medicine<\/em>
\n“Resolving cancer sub-clonal expression variation”<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Alaina Geary, MD, MHPE<\/strong>
\nClinical Instructor of Surgery<\/em>
\n“Value and economic sustainability of a centralized cancer screening program for hard to reach patients eligible for breast cancer screening at a safety net hospital”<\/p>\n

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2024 Recipients<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Michelle Teplensky, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering<\/em>
\n“Nanoscale-mediated Modulation of Melanoma STING Signaling for Antitumor Immunity”
\n 
\n 
\n\"\"<\/a>Chao Zhang, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Medicine<\/em>
\n“Parallel and divergent regulatory targets of YAP and TAZ in melanoma”
\n 
\n 
\n\"\"<\/a>Liangliang Hao, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering<\/em>
\n“Mapping spatial proteolytic activities in tumor metastasis to engineer precision oncology solutions”
\n 
\n 
\n\"\"<\/a>Erica Pratt, PhD<\/strong>
\nMoorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Assistant Professor<\/em>
\n“Molecular profiling of ctDNA in pancreatic cancer”
\n 
\n <\/p>\n

2023 Recipients<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Daniel Dempsey, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Dermatology and Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics\u00a0<\/em>
\n“Chemical approaches to understand protein deubiquitination in cancer”
\n 
\n 
\n\"\"<\/a>Ruben Dries, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Medicine<\/em>
\n“Dissecting the spatiotemporal mechanisms underlying breast cancer progression”
\n 
\n 
\n\"\"<\/a>Pawel Przytycki, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Faculty and Computing Data Sciences<\/em>
\n“Network-based algorithms for identifying the cell-state-specific effects of non-coding somatic mutations”
\n 
\n 
\n\"\"<\/a>Erica Pratt, PhD<\/strong>
\nMoorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Assistant Professor<\/em>
\n“Molecular profiling of ctDNA in pancreatic cancer”
\n 
\n 
\n2020 Recipients<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Christopher Heaphy, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Medicine<\/em>
\n“Modeling Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) As A Distinct Molecular Subclass of Cancer”
\n<\/strong>
\n 
\n <\/p>\n

\"\"Hadi T. Nia, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor<\/em>
\n“Tools for Probing Solid Stresses in Fibrotic Tumors”<\/p>\n

<\/strong>
\n <\/p>\n

 
\n\"\"Jessica L. Petrick, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Medicine<\/em>
\n“Helicobacter Pylori and Colorectal Cancer in African American Women”
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n2019 Recipients:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n\"\"
\nDennis Jones, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine<\/em>
\n\u201cUnderstanding the role of cancer-asso<\/span>ciated fibroblasts in immune suppression and growth of lymph node metastases”<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nGareth Morgan, PhD<\/strong>
\nResearch Assistant Professor, Hematology\/Oncology<\/em>
\n\u201cDevelopment of genomic methods for AL amyloidosis\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nJennifer Rider, ScD, MPH<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor, School of Public Health, Epidemiology<\/em>
\n\u201cPatterns in long-term prescription opioid use in patients with cancer who are HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected\u201d<\/p>\n

2018 Recipients: <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nElizabeth Duffy, MA<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nJoshua Campbell, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor, Division of Computational Biomedicine<\/em>
\n\u201cHistological and genomic characterization of premalignancy in prostate cancer from men with African Ancestry”<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nChristine Gunn, PhD<\/strong>
\nResearch Assistant Professor, Medicine\/General Internal Medicine<\/em>
\n\u201cDeveloping Educational Materials for Women with Dense Breasts Using a Multi-Stakeholder Approach\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nKimberly Mak, MD, MPH<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor, Radiation Oncology<\/em>
\n\u201cEstablishing Routine Measurement of Patient-Reported Outcomes\u00a0 for Radiation Oncology Patients at a Safety Net Hospital\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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