2005 Recipients

2005 - Three-Year Awards ($600,000)

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco
Are PDGFR+ Stem Cells a Source of Brain Tumors?

Frank Furnari, Ph.D.
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UCSD
The Role of EGF Receptor Heterogeneity in Driving Glioma Development and Therapeutic Responsiveness

2005 - One-Year Awards ($100,000)

Robert Bachoo, M.D., Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Validation of Promoters Targeting the Mature Astrocyte Compartment In Vivo

Maria-Magdalena Georgescu, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neuro-Oncology and Department of Molecular Gentics, Brain Tumor Center and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Understanding the Dispersal of Glioblastoma Cells

Qing Richard Lu, Ph.D.
U. T. Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
The Role of bHLH Transcription Factor Olig2 in Glioma Formation

William A. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Inhibition of P110α in Glioma