Summary of New Research Funded in 2007
Institution and Investigator |
Duration |
Project Title |
Direct Costs |
Indirect Costs |
Total Costs |
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Afghan Coalition |
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Aida Shirazi |
1.5 |
Breast Health Behaviors of Immigrant Afghan Women |
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$13,360 |
$99,255 |
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This is a collaborative project with Joan Bloom of University of California, Berkeley |
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Alta Bates Summit Medical Foundation |
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Lisa Bailey |
1 |
Networking Breast Cancer Navigator Programs in Northern California |
$15,000 |
$0 |
$15,000 |
Asian Health Services |
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Linda Okahara |
3 |
Breast Cancer Risks in California Nail Salon Workers |
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$14,839 |
$322,690 |
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This is a collaborative project with Peggy Reynolds of the Northern California Cancer Center |
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Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope |
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Kimlin Ashing-Giwa |
1.5 |
Sister Survivor: African American Breast Cancer Coalition |
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$51,750 |
$169,000 |
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This is a collaborative project with Gloria Harmon of Women of Essence |
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Cynthie Wong |
2 |
Mechanisms of HSP90 Inhibitor Action in Breast Cancer |
$76,000 |
$0 |
$76,000 |
The Burnham Institute of Medical Research |
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Lorena Puto |
2 |
Mechanisms of Daxx-Mediated Apoptosis in Breast Cancer |
$76,000 |
$0 |
$76,000 |
California Institute of Technology |
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John Phillips |
2 |
Polyamide HIF Inhibitors to Block Breast Cancer Metastasis |
$76,000 |
$0 |
$76,000 |
Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic |
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Beverly Burns and Denise Wells |
3 |
Underserved Women with Breast Cancer at End of Life |
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$25,000 |
$337,500 |
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This is a collaborative project with Shelley Adler at University of California, San Francisco |
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Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation |
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Susan Love |
1 |
Symposium on the Intraductal Approach to Breast Cancer |
$25,000 |
$0 |
$25,000 |
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Susan Love |
3 |
Intraductal Therapy of DCIS: A Presurgery Study |
$750,000 |
$101,559 |
$851,559 |
Northern California Cancer Center |
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Peggy Reynolds |
3 |
Breast Cancer Risks in California Nail Salon Workers |
$322,184 |
$27,119 |
$349,303 |
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This is a collaborative project with Linda Okahara of Asian Health Services |
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Northern Sierra Rural Health Network |
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Mary Anne Kreshka and Jim Perkins |
3 |
Expanding Rural Access: Distance Delivery of Support Groups |
$401,997 |
$23,853 |
$425,850 |
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This is a collaborative project with Cheryl Koopman at Stanford University |
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Palo Alto Institute for Research and Education |
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Robert West |
1.5 |
Determination of Stromal Gene Expression in Breast Cancer |
$112,861 |
$26,580 |
$139,441 |
Scripps Research Institute |
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Brunhilde Felding-Habermann |
2 |
Neural Stem Cell Therapy for Breast Cancer Brain Metastases |
$311,400 |
$108,000 |
$419,400 |
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Florence Schaffner |
3 |
Targeting Tissue Factor in Breast Cancer |
$90,000 |
$0 |
$90,000 |
Stanford University |
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Steven Artandi |
2 |
Telomerase, Mammary Stem Cells, and Breast Cancer |
$291,750 |
$68,527 |
$360,277 |
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Deborah Burkhart |
2 |
Novel Regulation of the Rb Pathway in Breast Epithelium |
$76,000 |
$0 |
$76,000 |
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Karlene Cimprich |
1.5 |
Exploring the Role of PARP Inhibitors in Breast Cancer |
$100,000 |
$57,750 |
$157,750 |
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Brian Hargreaves |
1.5 |
Multinuclear MRI of Breast Tumors |
$183,711 |
$53,060 |
$236,771 |
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Cheryl Koopman |
3 |
Expanding Rural Access: Distance Delivery of Support Groups |
$254,837 |
$35,500 |
$290,337 |
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This is a collaborative project with Mary Anne Kreshka & Jim Perkins at Northern Sierra Rural Health Network |
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Jennifer Lahti |
2 |
Engineering EGFR Antagonists for Breast Tumor Targeting |
$76,000 |
$0 |
$76,000 |
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Tatana Spicakova |
3 |
Determinants of Response to Microtubule Stabilizing Drugs |
$90,000 |
$0 |
$90,000 |
University of California, Berkeley |
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Joan Bloom |
1.5 |
Breast Health Behaviors of Immigrant Afghan Women |
$70,481 |
$0 |
$70,481 |
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This is a collaborative project with Aida Shirazi of the Afghan Coalition |
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Crystal Marconette |
2 |
Indole (I3C) Control of Breast Cancer by ER Downregulation |
$76,000 |
$0 |
$76,000 |
University of California, Irvine |
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Connie Tsai |
2 |
The Relationship of BRCA1 and HMGA2 in Breast Cancer |
$76,000 |
$0 |
$76,000 |
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Min Yang |
2 |
Competition for ADA2 and 3 to Inhibit p53 in Breast Cancer |
$76,000 |
$0 |
$76,000 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
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Ralf Landgraf |
1.5 |
Lipid Raft Composition in Deregulated ERBB2 Signaling |
$100,000 |
$0 |
$100,000 |
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Frank Pajonk |
1.5 |
Modulation of Breast Cancer Stem Cell Response to Radiation |
$150,000 |
$0 |
$150,000 |
University of California, San Diego |
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Ananda Goldrath |
1.5 |
Novel Cytokine Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer |
$150,000 |
$0 |
$150,000 |
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Georgia Sadler |
1.5 |
Science Literacy & Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Education |
$44,003 |
$0 |
$44,003 |
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This is a collaborative project with Natasha Riley of the Vista Community Clinic |
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Thomas Nelson |
2 |
Early Breast Cancer Detection Using 3D Ultrasound Tomography |
$225,000 |
$0 |
$225,000 |
University of California, San Francisco |
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Shelley Adler |
3 |
Underserved Women with Breast Cancer at End of Life |
$270,000 |
$0 |
$270,000 |
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This is a collaborative project with Beverly Burns & Denise Wells at Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic |
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Kelly Harradine |
3 |
Breast Tumor Responses to Novel TGF-beta Inhibitors |
$90,000 |
$0 |
$90,000 |
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Catherine Jacobson |
3 |
Cytoskeletal Regulation of Invading Breast Cells |
$90,000 |
$0 |
$90,000 |
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Ella Jones |
1.5 |
Molecular Imaging of Metastatic Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer |
$150,000 |
$0 |
$150,000 |
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Catherine Klifa |
1.5 |
Breast Cancer Treatment Monitoring Combining MRI and Optics |
$149,927 |
$0 |
$149,927 |
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Ching Hang Wong |
3 |
Trask, a Candidate Breast Cancer Metastasis Protein |
$90,000 |
$0 |
$90,000 |
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Jun Zhang |
3 |
A New Mouse Model of PI3-Kinase Induced Breast Cancer |
$90,000 |
$0 |
$90,000 |
University of Southern California |
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Jaimie Davis |
1.5 |
Circuit Training to Lower Breast Cancer Risk in Latina Teens |
$185,210 |
$59,290 |
$244,500 |
Vista Community Clinic |
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Natasha Riley |
1.5 |
Science Literacy & Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Education |
$109,353 |
$12,049 |
$121,402 |
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This is a collaborative project with Georgia Sadler of University of California, San Diego |
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Women of Essence |
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Gloria Harmon |
1.5 |
Sister Survivor: African American Breast Cancer Coalition |
$55,405 |
$7,095 |
$62,500 |
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This is a collaborative project with Kimlin Ashing-Giwa of Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope |
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