2004 Recipients

2004 - Three-Year Awards ($600,000)

Elizabeth Maher, M.D., Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, MA)
Identifying the Genetic Switches Driving Glioma Initiation and Progression

Charles L. Sawyers, M.D.
University of California - Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Optimal Deployment of Kinase Inhibitors for Glioma Therapy

2004 - One-Year Awards ($100,000)

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Ph.D.
University of California - San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Do Brain Tumors Originate From Adult Neural Stem Cells?

Gabriele Bergers, Ph.D.
University of California - San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Understanding Perivascular Invasion Mechanisms in Glioblastoma

R. Jude Samulski, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
In Vitro Evolution of Viral Vectors with Targeting Capability for Human Astrocytic Tumors

Harald W. Sontheimer, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL)
Role of Amino-Acid Transport in Growth Control and Invasion of Astrocyte Derived Tumors

Terry A. Van Dyke, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Development and Imaging of Preclinical Mouse Models of High Grade Astrocytoma