The UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center has selected its inaugural Accelerating Innovation Fund project awards. The Accelerating Innovation Fund supports collaborative, internal projects that seek to transform scientific insights into practical advancements to positively impact patients’ lives by developing new therapies, improving diagnostics and screening technologies, creating digital interventions, and enhancing patient care practices.
Awarded projects and faculty are:
Precision Alpha Particle Therapy for Ovarian Peritoneal Metastases
- Jiang He, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging
- Charles Landen, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Alexander Klibanov, PhD, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
- Jeffrey Siebers, PhD, Professor of Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Engineering
- Jiefu Zheng, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging
A Laboratory Diagnostic for the Early Detection and Therapeutic Monitoring of Colorectal Cancer
- James Landers, PhD, Professor of Chemistry
- Chris Moskaluk, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology
Targeting AVIL in Glioblastoma Using Nanoparticle-Packaged Small Molecule Inhibitors
- Anuradha Illendula, PhD, Assistant Professor of Hematology and Oncology
- Hui Li, PhD, Professor of Pathology
- Benjamin Purow, MD, Professor of Neurology
CD24 as a Novel Vulnerability of Engineered CAR-T Therapy of Mantle Cell Lymphoma
- Lawrence G. Lum, MD, DSc, Professor of Hematology and Oncology
- Craig Portell, MD, Associate Professor of Hematology and Oncology
- Jianguo Tao, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology
- Michael Williams, MD, Professor of Hematology and Oncology
For more information, please visit the Accelerating Information Fund on the Cancer Center website or contact Program Director Sharon Krueger.
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