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Research We Fund: Extramural Discovery Science

Cancer Detection and Progression (CDP)

Areas Reviewed

  • Biomarker identification and pre-clinical development, including liquid biopsy and molecular imaging

  • Pre-clinical modeling to identify factors (such as microbiota, pathogens, nutrition, metabolism, oxygen levels, oncogenes, and tumor suppressor genes) and their mechanisms of action contributing to cancer progression

  • Mechanisms of therapeutic response, including tumor evolution and treatment resistance

  • Mechanisms of treatment-associated morbidities

Peer Review Committee Members

Co-chair, Vera Tarakanova, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin

Co-chair, Christopher Willey, MD, PhD, University of Alabama

Community Research Partner, Karen Dupske

Community Research Partner, Miguel Melendez

Sally Adebamowo, ScD, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Sanjay Aneja, MD, Yale University

Chad Brenner, PhD, University of Michigan

Grace Chen, MD, PhD, University of Michigan

Claudette St. Croix, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Lukas Dow, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine

Joan Garrett, PhD, University of Cincinnati; James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy

Jessie Yanxiang Guo, PhD, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Rebecca Leary, PhD, Novartis

Zibo Li, PhD, UNC Chapel Hill

James Robinson, PhD, University of Minnesota

Lucas Salas, PhD, Darthmouth College

Mala Shanmugam, PhD, Emory University

David Soto-Pantoja, PhD, Wake Forest University

Shannon Stott, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Wei Qiu, PhD, Loyola University

Zhaoming Wang, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Liangzhong Xiang, PhD, University of California, Irvine

Xuehong Zhang, MBBS, ScD, Harvard University