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2007 Grant Winners
2007 Grant Winners
Andrew Lassman, Luca Cartegni, Adilia Hormigo, Michelle Bradbury, Michael McDevitt, and Daniel Ciznadija (from left)

The Brain Tumor Center announces the winners of the first annual Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center brain tumor grant competition. The following projects were chosen from 15 peer-reviewed applications for funding by a panel of Memorial Sloan-Kettering investigators and clinicians.

  • Michelle Bradbury, Assistant Attending, Department of Radiology

    Project: Dynamic PET imaging of tumor growth and early response to targeted signaling inhibitors in genetically engineered mouse models

  • Luca Cartegni, Assistant Member, SKI, Molecular Pharmacology and Chemisty

    Project: Profiling, characterization, and therapeutic modulations of aberrant alternative RNA splicing in gliomas

  • Daniel Ciznadija, Research Fellow, SKI, Molecular Biology

    Project: Dissection of the oncogenic functions of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 mediating PDGF-directed gliomagenesis

  • Adilia Hormigo, Assistant Attending, Department of Neurology

    Project: Understanding the role of CD133+ stem cells in the brain

  • Andrew Lassman, Assistant Attending, Department of Neurology

    Project: Targeting glioblastoma stem cells with Akt inhibition and radiation

  • Michael McDevitt, Assistant Attending, Department of Medicine

    Project: Targeting tumor vasculature with a self-assembling synthetic infarct
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