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Grants and Awards

Publications:

Feyruz Rassool, Ph.D. associate professor, Department of Radiation, is senior author on a paper with Sallmyr A, Fan J, Datta K, Kim KT, Grosu D, Shapiro P, and Small D, “Internal tandem duplication of FLT3 (FLT3/ITD) induces increased ROS production, DNA damage, and misrepair: implications for poor prognosis in AML” Blood. 2008 Mar 15;111(6):3173-82. Epub 2008 Jan 11.

Ming T. Tan, Ph.D. professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,, authored an article “Conditional Power in Clinical Trial Monitoring.” Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials, D'Agostino R, ed., Wiley-Interscience 2008.

Events, Lectures & Workshops:

Feyruz Rassool, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Radiation, has an invited talk at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) on April 13 in a session entitled: A Paradigm Rift in Myelodysplastic Syndromes: New Insights Range from Bench to Bedside. The title of her presentation is: “Reactive oxygen species (ROS), DNA Damage and Repair Errors: A Model for Genomic Instability in Myelodysplastic Syndromes.”

New Grants and Awards:

Ronald B. Gartenhaus, M.D., associate professor, Department of Medicine, received notice of a new three-year Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI) Clinical Innovator Award, "Translational Control and Breast Cancer Development" for a total of $325,500. The start date is July 1, 2008.

Martin J. Edelman, M.D., professor, Department of Medicine and director of Medical Thoracic Oncology, received notice of a new, two-year grant from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer to supervise M. Naomi Horiba, M.D., for a project entitled "Myeloid derived suppressor cells in non small cell lung cancer: Influence of tumor bulk and COX-2" for a total of $80,000. The start date is July 1, 2008.

Geoffrey Girnun, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, received notice of a new three-year Susan G. Komen Career Catalyst Award, “Bioenergetic Control of Breast Cancer Growth by the Transcriptional Coactivator PGC1alpha” for a total of $450,000. The start date is May 1, 2008.

Edward Sausville, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, received notice of a new Maryland Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure “Improving Support and Accrual to NCI-Sponsored Breast Cancer Clinical Trials” for $75,000. The start date is April 1, 2008.

This page was last updated on: April 23, 2008.