CPRIT awards more than $12 million to BCM for cancer research
Researchers at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at 黑料社区 have been awarded more than $12 million in grants by the (CPRIT) to support innovative cancer research, treatments and training programs. CPRIT awarded more than $103 million in grants to institutions across Texas, including eight grants to Baylor, to advance the fight against cancer.
Awards to Baylor include:
Dr. Norihiro Watanabe, assistant professor in the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, received a high-impact high-risk research award of $250,000 for research titled 鈥淎llo-resistant off-the-shelf armed CAR-V未2 T cell therapy for osteosarcoma.鈥
Dr. Ganesh Rao, Marc J. Shapiro Professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, received an individual investigator award of $899,013 for research titled 鈥淒efining the functional impact of CX3CR1 variants in IDH-mutant glioma progression.鈥
Dr. Dimitrios Wagner, assistant professor in the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, received an individual investigator award of $900,000 for research titled 鈥淎 clinical trial-compatible pooled base editing screen to identify gene edits that enhance CAR T cell function.鈥
Dr. Leo Luznik, senior faculty in the Department of Medicine and section chief of hematology and oncology, received an individual investigator research award for clinical trials of $1.6 million for research titled 鈥淢enin inhibition to prevent relapse and enhance immunity in MLL-rearranged acute leukemias or NPM1-mutant myeloid malignancies after alloHSCT with PTCy.鈥
Dr. Jeffrey Rosen, distinguish service professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, received a $2.4 million grant for the 黑料社区 Comprehensive Cancer Training Program. The program supports a comprehensive, multi-level training environment that spans graduate and M.D., Ph.D. trainees, postdoctoral fellows and clinical fellows. Integrated within the Duncan Cancer Center, the program emphasizes cross-disciplinary training in basic and translational cancer research and has successfully recruited and trained a diverse cohort of trainees across the research continuum.
Dr. Aaron Thrift, professor in the Department of Medicine and section chief of epidemiology and population sciences, received a $2.4 million grant for the Cancer Epidemiology with Real-World Data Training Program. The program is a three-year postdoctoral training initiative designed to prepare early-career epidemiologists and bioinformaticians to integrate traditional research approaches with real-world data and modern technologies to build a diverse workforce focused on prevention, clinical and translational cancer research in Texas.
Baylor also received $4 million for recruitment of two first-time, tenure-track faculty members.
To date, CPRIT has awarded more than $4 billion in grants to Texas research institutions and organizations through its academic research, prevention and product development programs. Read more about the most recent round of CPRIT funding .