UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has awarded nine researchers with Developmental Research Awards to support their work in advancing the fields of clinical/translational and population science cancer research.
The awards recognize faculty, fellows, residents, and postdoctoral trainees with one-year grants of up to $50,000 each. In the population sciences category, award winners are chosen from projects in cancer prevention and control and cancer epidemiology, or in projects that bridge the basic and population sciences. In the clinical/translational category, award winners are chosen from researchers conducting pilot clinical trials, conducting research using human subjects or tissues or working on interventions (drugs, devices, behavioral approaches, etc.) that will be used as the basis for treatments or the measurement of patient health outcomes.
Funding for these awards is made possible by support from private donors, including the Carolina Capstone Challenge, the National Cancer Institute, and other grant funding. Award winners and abstracts can be found here.
The 2014 Developmental Award winners are:
Population Sciences Cancer Research Awards
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Clara Lee, MD, MPP Associate Professor, Surgery |
Decision making and outcomes of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy |
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Hazel Nichols, PhD Assistant Professor, Epidemiology |
Pilot study of breast cancer chemoprevention use and adherence in a large integrated healthcare setting |
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Assistant Professor, Urology |
MISCAN-Bladder: A simulation model for comparative effectiveness research |
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Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, Sheps Center for Health Services Research |
Adaptation and testing of a decision aid for lung cancer screening |
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Christine Rini, PhD Associate Professor, Health Behavior |
Adapting an internet-based pain coping skills training program to help cancer patients manage bone pain |
Clinical/Translational Cancer Research Awards
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Elizabeth Flate, PhD Postdoctoral Trainee (Yeh Lab) |
Evaluating a stromal gene signature as a prognostic tool in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma |
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Assistant Professor, Medicine |
Development of models to study the origin and progression of intestinal carcinoids |
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Janet Leung, PhD Assistant Professor, Medicine |
An investigation into the therapeutic potential of MYC inhibition by I-BET151 in renal cancer |
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Associate Professor, Pharmacy |
Evaluation of mediators of monocuclear phagocyte system (MPS) function and nanoparticle pharmacology in obese and non-obese patients with ovarian and endometrial cancer enrolled on the UNC Cancer Survivorship cohort (CSC) |