The following scientists and clinicians are winners of the 2009 Memorial Sloan-Kettering brain tumor grant competition.
Lindy Barrett, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Biology and Genetics
Project Title: The Role of Id Proteins in GBM Tumorigenesis
Oren Becher, MD, Instructor, Pediatrics; Jason Huse, MD, PhD, Instructor, Pathology; Praveen Raju, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor/Research Fellow, Developmental Biology
Project Title: Molecular Characterization and Stratification of Human Medulloblastomas
Timothy Chan, MD, PhD, Assistant Member, HOPP/Radiation Oncology
Project Title: Understanding the Function of the Tyrosine Phosphatase PTPRD, a Frequently Inactivated and Mutated Tumor Suppressor in Glioblastoma
Jason Huse, MD, PhD, Instructor, Pathology
Project Title: Biomarker Development for the Molecular Subclassification of Malignant Glioma
Andrew Lassman, MD, Assistant Member, Neurology; Ingo Mellinghoff, MD, Assistant Member, Neurology/HOPP
Project Title: Pulsatile Kinase Inhibitor Therapy for Malignant Glioma: Proof of Concept Clinical Trial
Tatsuya Ozawa, MD, PhD, Research Fellow, Cancer Biology and Genetics
Project Title: The Discovery of Genetic Events Cooperating with NF1 Inactivation in Glimoagenesis
Teodoro Pulvirenti, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cell Biology
Project Title: Wnt Signaling in Gliomas and the Control of Stem-like, Glioma Cell Fate
