BCTRP Pilot Grants

2023 Breast Cancer Translational Research Program Pilot Grant Awardees

Team Science

“Inflammation and Lymphedema” William Carson, Roman Skoracki, and  Karen Hock

“Tissue Factor (CD142) as a New Target for Antibody-Drug Conjugate Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer” Zhiwei Hu, Robert Wesolowski, and Kai Johnson

“Spatial Association of Tumor Microbes and the Tumor Microenvironment in Breast Cancer Subtypes” Sachin Jhawar and Dan Spakowicz

“Effect of a MIND Diet Intervention on DNA Methylation Patterns in Breast Cancer Survivors: Analysis of Patient Specimens from the MIND-BC Pilot Study” Tonya Orchard and Min-Ae Song

“Body Composition, Lymphovenous Bypass, and Lymphedema Incidence in Patients Diagnosed with Localized Breast Cancer” Dionisia Quiroga, Ting-Yuan Cheng, Roman Skoracki, Karen Hock, Xuan Nguyen

‘Last Mile’

“Improving Breast Cancer Care Outcomes for Sexual and Gender Minority People” Elizabeth Arthur, Bridget Oppong, Jessica Krok-Schoen

“Slit2 as a Novel Approach for Targeting Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer” Ramesh Ganju and Bhuvana Ramaswamy

“Development of Novel Ral Inhibitors for the Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer” Steve Sizemore

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