The following scientists and clinicians were winners of the first-annual Memorial Sloan-Kettering brain tumor grant competition. All were approved for a second year of funding from July 2008 through June 2009.
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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
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Luca Cartegni, Assistant Member, SKI, Molecular Pharmacology and Chemisty
Project: Profiling, characterization, and therapeutic modulations of aberrant alternative RNA splicing in gliomas
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Daniel Ciznadija, Research Fellow, SKI, Molecular Biology
Project: Dissection of the oncogenic functions of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 mediating PDGF-directed gliomagenesis
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Adilia Hormigo, Assistant Attending, Department of Neurology
Project: Understanding the role of CD133+ stem cells in the brain
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Andrew Lassman, Assistant Attending, Department of Neurology
Project: Targeting glioblastoma stem cells with Akt inhibition and radiation
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Michael McDevitt, Assistant Attending, Department of Medicine
Project: Targeting tumor vasculature with a self-assembling synthetic infarct
