Summary of New Research Funded in 2007

Institution and Investigator

Duration
(Years)

Project Title

Direct Costs

Indirect Costs

Total Costs

Afghan Coalition

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aida Shirazi

1.5

Breast Health Behaviors of Immigrant Afghan Women

 

$13,360

$99,255

 

This is a collaborative project with Joan Bloom of University of California, Berkeley

 

 

Alta Bates Summit Medical Foundation

 

 

 

 

Lisa Bailey

1

Networking Breast Cancer Navigator Programs in Northern California

$15,000

$0

$15,000

Asian Health Services

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Okahara

3

Breast Cancer Risks in California Nail Salon Workers

 

$14,839

$322,690

 

This is a collaborative project with Peggy Reynolds of the Northern California Cancer Center

 

Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope

 

 

 

 

Kimlin Ashing-Giwa

1.5

Sister Survivor: African American Breast Cancer Coalition

 

$51,750

$169,000

 

This is a collaborative project with Gloria Harmon of Women of Essence

 

 

 

 

Cynthie Wong

2

Mechanisms of HSP90 Inhibitor Action in Breast Cancer

$76,000

$0

$76,000

The Burnham Institute of Medical Research

 

 

 

 

Lorena Puto

2

Mechanisms of Daxx-Mediated Apoptosis in Breast Cancer

$76,000

$0

$76,000

California Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

John Phillips

2

Polyamide HIF Inhibitors to Block Breast Cancer Metastasis

$76,000

$0

$76,000

Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic

 

 

 

 

Beverly Burns and Denise Wells

3

Underserved Women with Breast Cancer at End of Life

 

$25,000

$337,500

 

This is a collaborative project with Shelley Adler at University of California, San Francisco

 

Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation

 

 

 

 

Susan Love

1

Symposium on the Intraductal Approach to Breast Cancer

$25,000

$0

$25,000

 

Susan Love

3

Intraductal Therapy of DCIS: A Presurgery Study

$750,000

$101,559

$851,559

Northern California Cancer Center

 

 

 

 

Peggy Reynolds

3

Breast Cancer Risks in California Nail Salon Workers

$322,184

$27,119

$349,303

 

This is a collaborative project with Linda Okahara of Asian Health Services

 

 

 

Northern Sierra Rural Health Network

 

 

 

 

Mary Anne Kreshka and Jim Perkins

3

 Expanding Rural Access: Distance Delivery of Support Groups

$401,997

$23,853

$425,850

 

This is a collaborative project with Cheryl Koopman at Stanford University

 

 

 

Palo Alto Institute for Research and Education

 

 

 

 

Robert West

1.5

Determination of Stromal Gene Expression in Breast Cancer

$112,861

$26,580

$139,441

Scripps Research Institute 

 

 

 

 

 

Brunhilde Felding-Habermann

2

Neural Stem Cell Therapy for Breast Cancer Brain Metastases

$311,400

$108,000

$419,400

 

Florence Schaffner

3

Targeting Tissue Factor in Breast Cancer

$90,000

$0

$90,000

Stanford University

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steven Artandi

2

Telomerase, Mammary Stem Cells, and Breast Cancer

$291,750

$68,527

$360,277

 

Deborah Burkhart

2

Novel Regulation of the Rb Pathway in Breast Epithelium

$76,000

$0

$76,000

 

Karlene Cimprich

1.5

Exploring the Role of PARP Inhibitors in Breast Cancer

$100,000

$57,750

$157,750

 

Brian Hargreaves

1.5

Multinuclear MRI of Breast Tumors

$183,711

$53,060

$236,771

 

Cheryl Koopman

3

 Expanding Rural Access: Distance Delivery of Support Groups

$254,837

$35,500

$290,337

 

This is a collaborative project with Mary Anne Kreshka & Jim Perkins at Northern Sierra Rural Health Network

 

Jennifer Lahti

2

Engineering EGFR Antagonists for Breast Tumor Targeting

$76,000

$0

$76,000

 

Tatana Spicakova

3

Determinants of Response to Microtubule Stabilizing Drugs

$90,000

$0

$90,000

University of California, Berkeley

 

 

 

 

Joan Bloom

1.5

Breast Health Behaviors of Immigrant Afghan Women

$70,481

$0

$70,481

 

This is a collaborative project with Aida Shirazi of the Afghan Coalition

 

 

 

 

Crystal Marconette

2

Indole (I3C) Control of Breast Cancer by ER Downregulation

$76,000

$0

$76,000

University of California, Irvine

 

 

 

 

 

Connie Tsai

2

The Relationship of BRCA1 and HMGA2 in Breast Cancer

$76,000

$0

$76,000

 

Min Yang

2

Competition for ADA2 and 3 to Inhibit p53 in Breast Cancer

$76,000

$0

$76,000

University of California, Los Angeles

 

 

 

 

Ralf Landgraf

1.5

Lipid Raft Composition in Deregulated ERBB2 Signaling

$100,000

$0

$100,000

 

Frank Pajonk

1.5

Modulation of Breast Cancer Stem Cell Response to Radiation

$150,000

$0

$150,000

University of California, San Diego

 

 

 

 

Ananda Goldrath

1.5

Novel Cytokine Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer

$150,000

$0

$150,000

 

Georgia Sadler

1.5

Science Literacy & Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Education

$44,003

$0

$44,003

 

This is a collaborative project with Natasha Riley of the Vista Community Clinic

 

 

 

Thomas Nelson

2

Early Breast Cancer Detection Using 3D Ultrasound Tomography

$225,000

$0

$225,000

University of California, San Francisco

 

 

 

 

Shelley Adler

3

Underserved Women with Breast Cancer at End of Life

$270,000

$0

$270,000

 

This is a collaborative project with Beverly Burns & Denise Wells at Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic

 

Kelly Harradine

3

Breast Tumor Responses to Novel TGF-beta Inhibitors

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Catherine Jacobson

3

Cytoskeletal Regulation of Invading Breast Cells

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Ella Jones

1.5

Molecular Imaging of Metastatic Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer

$150,000

$0

$150,000

 

Catherine Klifa

1.5

Breast Cancer Treatment Monitoring Combining MRI and Optics

$149,927

$0

$149,927

 

Ching Hang Wong

3

Trask, a Candidate Breast Cancer Metastasis Protein

$90,000

$0

$90,000

 

Jun Zhang

3

A New Mouse Model of PI3-Kinase Induced Breast Cancer

$90,000

$0

$90,000

University of Southern California

 

 

 

 

Jaimie Davis

1.5

Circuit Training to Lower Breast Cancer Risk in Latina Teens

$185,210

$59,290

$244,500

Vista Community Clinic

 

 

 

 

 

 

Natasha Riley

1.5

Science Literacy & Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Education

$109,353

$12,049

$121,402

 

This is a collaborative project with Georgia Sadler of University of California, San Diego

 

 

Women of Essence

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gloria Harmon

1.5

Sister Survivor: African American Breast Cancer Coalition

$55,405

$7,095

$62,500

 

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