Developmental Research Program
The Leukemia SPORE Developmental Research Program will be a source of seed funding to:
- Encourage and explore innovative translational ideas focusing on leukemia
- Encourage successful researchers working in other fields to focus their expertise toward the development of innovative translational projects in leukemia
The program will support projects with testable translational hypotheses that have foreseeable clinical relevance for therapy and prognosis of leukemia, and significant impact on changing therapy and prognosis in leukemia.
Project Selection
The identification and funding of new ideas will be through a peer-review mechanism. Announcements for developmental funding opportunities will be made twice each year. Up to four projects will be funded every year depending on the quality and relevance of the submitted proposals. The program will solicit and advertise for such proposals institutionally and from investigators outside the institution. Promising projects may be renewed, encouraged to obtain other peer-reviewed support, or expanded and approved as full SPORE projects to replace others that have been completed or judged not successful.
2006-2007 Developmental Research Awards Recipients
- Dapeng Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Assistant Professor, Melanoma Med Oncology - Waldemar Priebe, Ph.D.
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor, Experimental Therapeutics - Dan Jones, M.D., Ph.D.
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Hematopathology
- Seth Corey, M.D.
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor, Pediatrics - George Rassidakis, M.D., Ph.D.
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Assistant Professor, Hematopathology
2005-2006 Developmental Research Awards Recipients
- William G. Bornmann, Ph.D.
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imagining - Seth J. Corey, M.D., Ph.D.
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Pediatrics - Patient Care
- Sharon R. Dent, Ph.D.
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - Dan Jones, M.D., Ph.D.
U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
2004-2005 Developmental Research Awards Recipients
2003 Developmental Research Award Recipients
- Wadih Arap, M.D., Ph.D.
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor
Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology - Srdan Verstovesek, M.D., Ph.D.
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Assistant Professor
Department of Leukemia
- Nicholas Donato, Ph.D.
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Associate Professor
Department of Bioimmunotherapy - Research - Peng Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Pathology - Research
For more information regarding the Developmental Research Program contact:
Laura Sasse
Leukemia SPORE Grant Program Coordinator
Phone: 713-745-2460
FAX: 713-745-1683
E-mail: Lsasse@mdanderson.org
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