Summary of New Research Funded in 2009

Institution and Investigator

Years

Project Title

Direct Costs

Indirect Costs

Total Cost

Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope

 

Kimlin Ashing-Giwa

1

Sister Survivor: Evaluating Best Practices in Social Support

$5,000

$0

$5,000

This is a collaborative planning grant with Carolyn Tapp of Women of Color Breast Cancer Survivors Support Project 

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Leslie Bernstein

1

Woman Care Study  

$19,917

$13,145

$33,062

This is a sub-award of the SRI initiative, “Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Stage-specific Breast Cancer Survival: A Pilot Study”

 

Hei Chan

2

The Role of Estrogen Receptor in Endocrine Resistance      

$76,000

$0

$76,000

 

Katherine DeLellis-Henderson

1

California Teachers’ Study  

$19,853

$13,103

$32,956

This is a sub-award of the SRI initiative, “Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Stage-specific Breast Cancer Survival: A Pilot Study”

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Yani Lu

2

Risk Factors and Breast Cancer Survival in Black/White Women

$89,996

$0

$89,996

 

Sumanta Pal

1.5

Survival in de novo and Recurrent Metastatic Breast Cancer 

$150,000

$99,000

$249,000

Circulo de Vida Cancer Support and Resource Center 

 

Carmen Ortiz

3

Nuevo Amanecer: Promoting the Psychosocial Health of Latinas

$250,453

$62,614

$313,067

This is a collaborative grant with Anna Napoles-Springer of University of California, San Francisco. 

Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation 

 

Dixie Mills

1

6th Symposium on the Intraductal Approach to Breast Cancer 

$25,000

$0

$25,000

Kaiser Foundation Research Institute 

 

Lawrence Kushi

1

Mammary Gland Evaluation and Risk Assessment

$25,000

$0

$25,000

 

Marilyn Kwan

1.5

Patient and Clinician Knowledge of Breast Cancer Lymphedema

$149,989

$77,795

$227,784

 

Marilyn Kwan

1

Pathways: A Study of Breast Cancer Survivorship and Life after Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) Study

$19,952

$10,528

$30,480

This is a sub-award of the SRI initiative, “Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Stage-specific Breast Cancer Survival: A Pilot Study”

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 

 

Laurie Friesenhahn

2

The Regulation of SATB1 in Metastatic Breast Cancer

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Trent Northen

1.5

Metabolite Imaging to Identify Drug Resistant Breast Cancer

$99,133

$73,104

$172,237

 

Daojing Wang

1.5

Role of p68 in Breast Cancer

$100,000

$65,339

$165,339

Northern California Cancer Center

 

Scarlett Gomez

2

Demographic Questions for California BC Research-Gomez

$299,994

$130,994

$430,988

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Susan Hurley & Peggy Reynolds

1

Exploring Disparities Environmental Risk Factors in Teachers

$99,851

$32,352

$132,203

 

Esther John

1

San Francisco Bay Area Breast Cancer Study

$20,000

$9,000

$29,000

This is a sub-award of the SRI initiative, “Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Stage-specific Breast Cancer Survival: A Pilot Study”

 

David Nelson

2

Model-building with Complex Environmental Exposures

$191,858

$86,337

$278,195

Palo Alto Institute for Research & Education

 

Russell Pachynski

2

Chemerin as an Immunotherapeutic Agent in Breast Cancer    

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Robert West

2

Stroma Expression Patterns in Breast Cancer

$250,000

$102,500

$352,500

Public Health Institute 

 

Barbara Cohn

5

Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer Across Generations

$4,564,314

$435,686

$5,000,000

 

Eric Roberts

2

Cancer Mapping: Making Spatial Models Work for Communities 

$299,887

$49,338

$349,225

Salk Institute for Biological Studies 

 

Dannielle Engle

2

A Genetic System for Identification of Mammary Stem Cells  

$76,000

$0

$76,000

Scripps Research Institute 

 

Melissa Dix

2

Substrate Profiling of Breast Cancer Related Proteases

$76,000

$0

$76,000

 

Brunhilde Felding-Habermann

1.5

Combating Breast Cancer with the Wellderly Immune Repertoire

$150,000

$134,850

$284,850

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Karin Staflin

2

P32: New Functional Target in Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Xiaohua Wu

1.5

Targeting DNA Repair Function of Breast Cancer Stem Cells

$150,000

$134,850

$284,850

Stanford University

 

Margaret Fuller

1.5

Novel Tumor Suppressors in Breast Development and Cancer

$150,000

$81,058

$231,058

 

Jonathan Pollack

1.5

Discovery of Fusion Genes in Breast Cancer

$100,000

$60,000

$160,000

 

Albert Wong

1.5

The Role of EGF Variant mLEEK and Grp78 in Breast Cancer

$150,000

$91,380

$241,380

The Burnham Institute for Medical Research

 

Sonia del Rincon

1.5

Finding BRCA1 Ubiquitinated Substrates in Breast Cancer

$100,000

$91,000

$191,000

 

Adam Richardson

1.5

Proline Metabolism in Metastatic Breast Cancer

$149,160

$135,735

$284,895

University of California, Berkeley

 

John Balmes

1

California Chemicals Policy & Breast Cancer

$159,334

$0

$159,334

University of California, Davis

 

Steven Chen

1.5

Reducing Surgical Morbidity of Breast Cancer Staging

$149,983

$0

$149,983

 

Damon Meyer

2

Control of BRCA2-mediated Homologous Recombination

$90,000

$0

$90,000

University of California, Irvine

 

Kyoko Yokomori

1.5

Inhibitors of Condensin I as Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer

$100,000

$0

$100,000

University of California, Los Angeles

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Arash Naeim

1.5

Health Literacy in Older Patient's Breast Cancer Treatment

$180,890

$0

$180,890

 

Frank Pajonk

2

Modulation of Breast Cancer Stem Cell Response to Radiation

$250,000

$0

$250,000

 

Richard Pietras

1.5

Membrane-associated Estrogen Receptors in Breast Cancer

$150,000

$0

$150,000

University of California, San Diego

 

Jakob Nebeker

2

Sound Speed Tomography for Early Breast Cancer Detection

$74,392

$0

$74,392

 

Michelle Rissling

2

Health Anxiety as a Risk for Insomnia in Breast Cancer

$73,855

$0

$73,855

University of California, San Francisco

 

Cindy Benod

2

Compounds Blocking Assembly of LRH-1 in Breast Cancer

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Frances Brodsky

1.5

A Molecular Strategy to Inhibit Breast Cancer Metastasis

$150,000

$0

$150,000

 

Jonathan Chou

2

Understanding the Role of GATA3 in Breast Cancer

$76,000

$0

$76,000

 

Robert Hiatt

1

New Paradigm of Breast Cancer Causation and Prevention

$229,732

$0

$229,732

 

Dai Horiuchi

2

Targeting MYC in Human Breast Cancer

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Kuang-Yu Jen

2

Role of Circadian Rhythm Gene Homolog PER3 in Breast Cancer

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Celia Kaplan

3

Breast Cancer Risk Reduction: A Patient-Doctor Intervention

$740,690

$0

$740,690

 

Rita Mukhtar

2

Macrophages in Breast Cancer Patients of African Descent

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Anna Napoles-Springer

3

Nuevo Amanecer: Promoting the Psychosocial Health of Latinas

$349,547

$0

$349,547

This is a collaborative grant with Carmen Ortiz of Circulo de Vida Cancer Support and Resource Center.

 

Lisa Singer

2

Diffusion-Weighted MRI in Monitoring Breast Cancer Treatment

$76,000

$0

$76,000

University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Claudia Gottstein

1.5

Antibody-based Targeting of Breast Cancer Stem Cells

$150,000

$0

$150,000

 

Jennifer Smith

2

A Predictive Factor for Eribulin Treatment of Breast Cancer

$76,000

$0

$76,000

University of Southern California

 

Graham Casey

1.5

Podocalyxin as a Basal-like Breast Cancer Stem Cell Marker

$149,911

$93,765

$243,676

 

Kristine Monroe

1

Multiethnic Cohort Study

$19,045

$11,998

$31,043

This is a sub-award of the SRI initiative, “Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Stage-specific Breast Cancer Survival: A Pilot Study”

 

Daniel Stram

2

New Methods for Genomic Studies in African American Women

$276,588

$166,043

$442,631

 

Anna Wu

3

Soy Treatment for High-risk Women and DCIS Patients

$750,000

$467,500

$1,217,500

 

Anna Wu

1

Los Angeles County Asian American Breast Cancer Study

$103,000

$63,000

$166,000

This is a sub-award of the SRI initiative, “Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Stage-specific Breast Cancer Survival: A Pilot Study”

Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego 

 

Per Borgstrom

1.5

Breast Cancer Tumor-Stroma Interactions in an In Vivo Model

$150,000

$134,250

$284,250

Women of Color Breast Cancer Survivors Support Project 

 

Carolyn Tapp

1

Sister Survivor: Evaluating Best Practices in Social Support

$5,000

$0

$5,000

This is a collaborative planning grant with Kimlin Ashing-Giwa of Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope.

Totals

 

$13,017,324

$2,926,264

$15,943,588

 

T*

Funded in part by Tax Check-off voluntary contributions from individual taxpayer's income tax forms.

A*

Funded in part by a grant from the Avon Foundation for Women.