Komen gives $2 million to research at UNC, Duke
The Susan G. Komen Foundation announced grants worth more than $2 million Wednesday to fund breast cancer research programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.
Posted — UpdatedKomen raises money nationwide and distributes it back through local affiliates such as Komen North Carolina to the Coast. Over the course of 32 years, those investments have totaled nearly $31 million in North Carolina, affiliate executive director Pam Kohl said.
The programs and investments are as follows:
Nearly $450,000 to Dr. Zachary Hartman at Duke to determine if triple negative breast cancer grows and spreads throughout the body along paths of inflammation.
$175,000 to Dr. Kimberly Blackwell at Duke who is comparing gene mutations in primary triple negative breast tumors to those that are present in a reappearance of the initial tumor.
$450,000 in funding to Dr. Michael Emanuele at UNC whose work with proteins will help to identify possible therapeutic targets that promote cancer growth, with a focus on finding novel therapies for triple negative breast cancer.
$200,000 to Dr. Lisa Carey at UNC who is developing a method to rapidly assess the genetic traits of the primary breast tumor and compare it to those found elsewhere in the body.
$200,000 to Dr. Neil Spector at Duke who is working to identify the different mechanisms involved in therapeutic resistance.
$175,000 to Dr. Gerard Blobe at Duke who is investigating whether loss of the transforming growth factor-beta receptor, TβRIII, a protein on the cell surface whose normal function is to inhibit breast cancer formation, is responsible for a decrease in the stiffness of a cancer cell.
$175,000 to Dr. Claire Deesat UNC who is building a strategic infrastructure that will encourage greater numbers of patients with metastatic breast cancer to enroll in narrowly focused Phase 1 clinical trials.
More than $50,000 in funding to Dr. Shelton Earp at UNC to carry out Phase III of the Carolina Breast Cancer Study (CBCS) – the largest population-based study of breast cancer in African-American and Caucasian women.
$35,000 to Dr. Kim Lyerly at Duke to conduct a workshop designed for scientists and consumer advocates to discuss new approaches to developing or enhancing agents for the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of cancer.
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