2012
Research Grants
The Daniel and Janet Mordecai Foundation–
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network–
AACR Career Development Award
Jiyoung Ahn, PhD
New York University, New York, NY
Oral Microbiome and Pancreatic Cancer:
A Prospective Case-Control Study
The Daniel and Janet Mordecai Foundation–
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network–
AACR Career Development Award
Darren Carpizo, MD, PhD
University of Medicine & Dentistry
of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Pre-clinical Studies of a p53 Mutant
Synthetic Lethal Compound in
Pancreatic Cancer
The Daniel and Janet Mordecai Foundation–
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network–
AACR Career Development Award
Mikala Egeblad, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Dynamics of Tumor-Stroma Interactions
in Pancreatic Cancer
Skip Viragh–
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network–
AACR Career Development Award
Eric Collisson, MD
University of California,
San Francisco, CA
Optimizing MEK Inhibition in
Pancreatic Cancer; from Cytostatic
to Cidal
CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
The Daniel and Janet Mordecai Foundation–
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network–
AACR Career Development Award
Kazuki Sugahara, MD, PhD
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research
Institute, La Jolla, CA
Tissue-Penetrating Drug Delivery to
Desmoplastic Pancreatic Tumors
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network–
AACR Career Development Award
David Sung-wen Yu, MD, PhD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Exploiting the Replication Stress Response
in Pancreatic Cancer