2009 Recipients

2009 - Three-Year Award ($600,000)

Lara Collier, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Genetic Approaches to Identify and Characterize Potential Drug Targets for High-grade Gliomas

Paul Mischel, M.D.
University of California Los Angeles
Identification of Malignant Glioma Cell Surface Markers and Molecular Characterization of Heterogenous Tumor Cell Populations to Guide Therapy

Luis Parada, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Physiologically Relevant Mouse Models of Human Glioma: A Powerful Tool for Therapeutic Target Identification by Parallel Chemical Genetics and Functional Genomics Analysis

2009 - One-Year Awards ($100,000)

Al Charest, Ph.D.
Tufts Medical Center
Targeting Cancer Stem Cells in a Pre-Clinical Mouse Model of Glioblastoma Multiforme Using Therapeutic Nanoparticles

Sean Morrison, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Do Glioblastomas Follow a Cancer Stem Cell Model?