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Funded research - Tax Checkoff

CBCRP is funded in part by voluntary tax contributions on personal California income tax forms.

Your contribution to the California Breast Cancer Research Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund on your state income tax form 540 will directly fund vital research into the causes, prevention and treatment of breast cancer.

In 2023-2024, CBCRP was allocated $356,000 in voluntary contributions and supported $346,000 in research awards and $10,000 in administrative costs. The following projects were supported entirely or in part by Californians who contributed to the California Breast Cancer Research Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund on their income tax form. 

Award details can also be found in our funded projects database.

 

2023

David Cheresh 
University of California, San Diego 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$205,000  
Barbara Cohn and Shahid Akilah
Public Health Institute 
Preventing Breast Cancer Special Initiative
$534,187  

 

2022

Eunjeong Ko and Michelle Avila
San Diego State University & Kern County Cancer Foundation
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$218,665
Michelle Melisko 
University of California, San Francisco 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$195,000   
Kimberly Berger 
Sequoia Foundation 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$215,262    

 

2021

Helen Palomino and Hui-Chun Su
Cancer Resource Center of the Desert & University of California, San Diego
Community Research Collaboration Award - Full
$718,694
William McCarthy 
University of California, Los Angeles 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$195,000   
Diana Marquez-Garban 
University of California, Los Angeles 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$195,000

 

2020

Jane Sellen, Peggy Reynolds and Nichole Warwick
Pesticide Action Network, University of California, San Francisco & Sonoma Safe Ag Safe Schools Community Research Collaboration Award - Full
$190,029 
Shyambabu Chaurasiya 
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$263,614 

 

2019

Rebecca Rakow-Penner 
University of California, San Diego 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$187,501  
Peggy Reynolds and Joanne Hild
University of California, San Francisco & Sierra Streams Institute
Community Research Collaboration Award - Full
$749,989    
Remi Buisson 
University of California, Irvine 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$125,000 

 

2018

Richard Pietras 
UCLA 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$187,358 
Fahumiya Samad 
San Diego Biomedical Research Institute 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$288,000   
Nagel Shari Hartman Stori
University of California, San Diego & Haus of Volta
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$178,111   
Kim Harley and Norma Morga
University of California, Berkeley & Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
Community Research Collaboration Award - Full  
$740,898         

 

2017

Ysabel Duron and Laura Fejerman
Latinas Contra Cancer UCSF
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$174,933         
Xiaohua Wu 
The Scripps Research Institute 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$290,250        
Rachel Morello-Frosch, Heather Buren and Erin Carrera
University of California, Berkeley & Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
Community Research Collaboration Award - Full
$790,314         

 

2016

Emmanuel Theodorakis 
University of California, San Diego 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$210,715 
Thea Tlsty 
University of California, San Francisco 
Translational Research Award
$956,774   
Bruce Daniel 
Stanford University 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$235,100

 

2015

John Shepherd 
University of California, San Francisco 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$124,112         
Polly Marshall and Shanaz Dairkee
Breast Cancer Over Time California Pacific Medical Center
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$246,950
Gary Johanning 
SRI International (SRI) 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$299,273 
Alison Chopel and Danielle Soto
Public Health Institute & Brighter Beginnings
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$174,915         
Marc Goodman
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 
Translational Research Award
$1,122,177 

 

2014

Irene Su
University of California, San Diego 
Translational Research Award
$968,782  
Anna Wu 
University of Southern California 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$246,937
Changqing Li 
University of California, Merced 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award Detection, Prognosis, and Treatment
$193,750     
Eunjung Lee 
University of Southern California 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$248,244  
Christopher Contag 
Stanford University 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$240,750 

 

2013

Anna Napoles and Carmen Ortiz 
University of California, San Francisco & Circulo de Vida Cancer Support and Resource 
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$191,152 
Axel Schonthal
University of Southern California 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$242,530 
Brian Feldman 
Stanford University 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$236,434    

 

2012

Deanna Kroetz 
University of California, San Francisco 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$100,000
Kim Harley & Kimberly Parra
University of California, Berkeley & Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas
Community Research Collaboration Award - Full
$646,431   
Debasish Tripathy 
University of Southern California 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$245,096 

 

2011

Joy Melnikow 
University of California, Davis 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award  
$148,170 
Brunhilde Felding-Habermann 
Scripps Research Institute 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award Renewal
$473,750 
David Feldman 
Stanford University 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award Renewal
$444,942

 

2010

Allison Kurian 
Stanford University School of Medicine 
Translational Research Award
$1,066,225
Peggy Reynolds 
Cancer Prevention Institute of California 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$199,080  
Lei Zhang 
UCLA 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$150,000  
Mihaela Lorger, Ph.D. & Felding Brunhilde
The Scripps Research Institute 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$284,850

 

2009

Arash Naeim 
UCLA 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$180,890   
Karin Staflin 
Scripps Research Institute 
Postdoctoral Fellowship
$ 90,000  
Yani Lu 
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope 
Postdoctoral Fellowship
$ 89,996 

 

2008

Gaurav Sharma
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Postdoctoral Fellowship
90,000
Paul Mills
University of California, San Francisco
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$163,668
Jessica Gorman
University of California, San Diego
Dissertation Award
35,492
Thea Tlsty
University of California, San Francisco
Translational Research Award
$750,000

 

2007

Brian Hargreaves
Stanford University
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$236,771
Ella Jones
University of California, San Francisco
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$150,000
Frank Pajonk
UCLA
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$150,000
Susan Love
Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation
Translational Research Award Research
$851,559
Peggy Reynolds and Linda Okahara
Northern California Cancer Center & Asian Health Services
Community Research Collaboration Award – Full
$666,913
Connie Tsai
University of California, Irvine
Dissertation Award
$76,000
Georgia Sadler and Natasha Riley
University of California, San Diego & Vista Community Clinic
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$165,405

 

2006

Barbara Mueller
La Jolla Institute for Molecular Medicine
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$327,372
Alice Whittemore, Ph.D.
Stanford University
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award Etiology
$264,595
Shanaz Dairkee
California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$279,242
Linda Navarro and Marlene von Friederichs-Fitzwater
Turtle Health Foundation & University of California, Davis
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$167725
Jennifer Scorah
Scripps Research Institute
Postdoctoral Fellowship
$90,000
Mary Anne Foo and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer
Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance & UCLA
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$187,500
Sara O’Donnell and Jeff Belkora
Mendocino Cancer Resource Center & University of California, San Francisco
Community Research Collaboration Award - Full
$672,272

 

2005

Brunhilde Felding-Habermann
The Scripps Research Institute
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$278,850  
Thomas R. Nelson
University of California, San Diego
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$149,879
Thea D. Tlsty
University of California, San Francisco
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$148,163
Stanley G. Rockson
Stanford University
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$234,178
Zul Surani, Roshan Bastani and Beth Glenn, Ph.D.
South Asian Cancer Foundation & UCLA
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$112,424

 

2004

Jeff Belkora, Sara O'Donnell, and Julie Ohnemus
University of California, San Francisco, Mendocino Cancer Resource Center & Humboldt Community Breast Health Project
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$115,000
Robert Carlson
Stanford University
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$156,108
Shiuan Chen
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope
Topic-targeted Research Award - Request for Applications  
$766,376
Bruce Tromberg, Nola Hylton and John Butler
University of California, Irvine & University of California, San Francisco
Translational Research Collaboration - Full 
$500,000
Maurizo Pellecchia
The Burnham Institute
STEP Award
$285,764
Myrto Petreas
California Department of Health Services
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$85,901

 

2003

Kristiina Vuori
The Burnham Institute
STEP Award
$288,000
Catherine Carpenter
University of California, Irvine
Topic-targeted Research Awards - Request for Applications
$533,527
Verena Kallab
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellowship
$80,000
Rebecca Smith-Bindman
University of California, San Francisco
Topic-targeted Research Awards - Request for Applications
$583,287
Dave Hoon, Lori Wilson and Armando Giuliano
John Wayne Cancer Institute
Translational Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$188,800

 

2002

Malcolm Pike
University of Southern California
STEP Award
$159,697
Thea Tlsty and Stefanie Jeffrey
University of California, San Francisco & Stanford University
Translational Research Collaboration Award - Full
$642,497
Priscilla Banks and Carol Somkin
African American Advisory Committee & Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
 $132,055

 

2001

Quan Lu
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellowship
$86,400
Caroline Bliss-Isberg and David Speigel
Central Coast Women’s Cancer Consortium & Stanford University
Community Research Collaboration Award - Full
$773,655
Dave Hoon
John Wayne Cancer Institute
STEP Award
$472,000
Barbara Berman and Heidi Kleiger
University of California, Los Angeles & Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness, Inc.
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$110,207
Susan Murin
University of California, Davis               
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$74,968

 

2000

Cheng-Ming Chuong
University of Southern California
IDEA-II: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award-II
$244,320
Argyrios Ziogas
University of California, Irvine
Topic-targeted Research Awards - Request for Applications
$287,987 
Hope Rugo
University of California, San Francisco
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award-II
$200,000
Michael Campbell 
University of California, San Francisco 
IDEA: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award
$195,000          

 

1999

Vicki Davis
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
IDEA-II: Innovative, Developmental, and Exploratory Award-II
$302,983
Matthew J. Cordova
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellowship
$74,968
Diane Estrin and Rani Eversley
Women's Cancer Resource Center & University of California, San Francisco
Community Research Collaboration Award - Pilot
$86,147
Beth E. Meyerowitz
University of Southern California
Topic-targeted Research Awards - Request for Applications
$617,738
DIVERSITY SUPPLEMENTS TO EXISTING AWARDS FOR:
 
Danielle Rose Ash (Mentor: Katherine Kahn)
University of California, Los Angeles
The Impact of Structure on the Quality of Breast Cancer Care
 
Melanie Funes-Duran (Mentor: Colleen Sweeny)
University of California, Davis
Pathway-Specific Gene Expression in Breast Cancer Cells
 
Dorothy Hong (Mentor: Michael Press)
University of Southern California
HER-2/neu Gene Variations and Breast Cancer Risk
 
Yoshiko Umezawa (Mentor: Rose Maly)
University of California, Los Angeles
Determinants of Receiving Breast Cancer Treatment in the Underserved
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