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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Awards $ 900,000 to Young Investigators
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced seven new Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators at its spring 2016 Clinical Investigator Award Committee review . The recipients of this three-year award are early-career physician – scientists who are conducting patient-oriented cancer research at major research centers under the mentorship of the nation ’ s leading scientists and clinicians , and will receive $ 450,000 in research funding .
Two researchers dedicated to hematologic malignancies were awarded this year :
• Ami S . Bhatt , MD , PhD , works under the mentorship of Linda Boxer , MD , PhD , and Michael Snyder , PhD , at Stanford University in Stanford , California . Dr . Bhatt ’ s research examines serious complications associated with chemotherapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation .
• Alex Kentsis , MD , PhD , a Richard Lumsden Foundation Clinical Investigator , works under the mentorship of Ross L . Levine , MD , and Scott A . Armstrong , MD , PhD , at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York , New York . Dr . Kentsis ’ research focuses on the discovery and development of novel therapeutic strategies for patients with refractory cancers , with immediate emphasis on therapyresistant acute myeloid leukemia .
Source : Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation news release , July 15 , 2016 .
UCSB Researchers Receive NIH Grants for Sepsis Research
The NIH has issued a five-year , $ 12.8 million research grant to a multidisciplinary team of
scientists focused on complications related to sepsis . The team includes Center for Nanomedicine ( CNM ) scientists and clinicians from multiple institutes , including the University of California Santa Barbara ( UCSB ), the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute ( SBP ), the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital , and the University of California San Diego .
“ Millions of people are diagnosed with sepsis each year worldwide , and on average 30 percent die from the complications of sepsis ,” said Jamey Marth , PhD , director of the UCSB CNM and professor at SBP . “ No new effective treatments have been developed in decades .”
Dr . Marth noted that new research has the potential to reduce the frequency of disability and death in patients diagnosed with sepsis .
Source : University of California Santa Barbara press release , July 19 , 2016 .
NCI Announces 2016 Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Awards
The National Cancer Institute ( NCI ) announced the 2016 recipients of the Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award , which recognizes and supports outstanding mid-career clinical investigators at NCI-designated cancer centers who are working to improve the lives of people with cancer through extensive involvement in NCI-funded collaborative clinical trials and whose leadership , participation , and activities promote clinical trials and research .
The award provides partial salary support for two years for the awardee to engage in activities and efforts related to the award , with the awardee devoting at least 15 percent effort to the activities associated with this award .
Board-certified clinicians who serve as full-time faculty members and have practiced medicine for three to 10 years post-fellowship are eligible for the award .
The 2016 award recipients include :
• Rahul Aggarwal , MD , UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center , University of California , San Francisco , San Francisco , CA
• Jamie Bakkum-Gamez , MD , Mayo Clinic Cancer Center , Rochester , MN
• Catherine Diefenbach , MD , Perlmutter Cancer Center , New York University Langone Medical Center , New York , NY
• Noah Hahn , MD , Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center , Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , MD
• Erin Hofstatter , MD , Yale Cancer Center , Yale School of Medicine , New Haven , CT
• Kevin Kelly , MD , PhD , USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , CA
• Sarah Leary , MD , MS , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , Fred Hutchinson / University of Washington Cancer Consortium , Seattle , WA
• Frederick Locke , MD , Moffitt Cancer Center , Tampa , FL
• Rachel Miller , MD , Markey Cancer Center , University of Kentucky , Lexington , KY
• Taofeek Owonikoko , MD , PhD , Winship Cancer Institute , Emory University , Atlanta , GA
• Geoffrey Oxnard , MD , Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center , Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , Boston , MA
• Dale Shepard , MD , PhD , Case Comprehensive Cancer Center , Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland , OH
• Theresa Werner , MD , Huntsman Cancer Institute , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , UT
Source : National Cancer Institute news release , July 14 , 2016 .

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