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YSF Board Member Analisa DiFeo, Ph.D., Receives Cancer Grant From The Mary Kay Foundation

The Mary Kay Foundation
2013 Cancer Grant Recipients

YSF Board Member Analisa DiFeo, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Title of Project: Single Agent Dual Inhibition of the AKT and ERK Signaling Pathway for the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer
David K. Ann, Ph.D., City of Hope, Los Angeles, CA Title of Project: Targeting Arginime Dependency, A metabolic Achilles’ Heel for Breast Cancer
Alexander S. Brodsky, Ph.D., Brown University, Providence, RI Title of Project: New Approaches to Target Mevalonate Biosynthesis for Ovarian Cancer
Kathleen Cho, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Title of Project: Examining falopian tube origin of high grade serous “ovarian” carcinoma
Dipanjan Chowdbury, Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA Title of Project: MicroRnas as a Molecular Basis for Defective Homologous Recombination in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
Andrew J. Ewald, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Title of Project: Basal marker+ cancer cells lead collective invasion and dissemination across multiple subtypes of breast cancer
Liza Makowski, Ph.D., UNC Chapel, Chapel Hill, NC Title of Project: Reversing carcinogenic effect of obesity on basal-like breast cancer
Michael G. Rosenfeld, MD, University of California, San Diego, CA Title of Project: Reprogramming Breast Cancer Cells
Joy Y. Wu, Ph.D., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Title of Project: Effects of Parathyroid Hormone on the Breast Cancer Metastatic Niche in Bone
Gerburg M. Wulf., Ph.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA Title of Project: Use of P13Kinase inhibitors to improve the Outcomes of Antineoplastic Treatments for Breast Cancer