Grants

awarded

The METAvivor Research Program was established in 2009 with the specific goal of funding stage IV metastatic breast cancer research to one day, end death from metastatic breast cancer (MBC). The following list includes current and past grant recipients along with their progress reports.

JOSH NEMAN, PhD

University of Southern California

Chemotherapy and tau interplay permeabilize BBB and facilitate brain metastasis

Steffi Oesterreich, PhD

University of Pittsburgh

Presented by Facebook Fundraisers

Targeting mesothelial – tumor cell interaction to treat invasive lobular cancer metastases

Thordur Oskarsson

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc.

Presented by Pittsburgh Metsquerade in honor of those living with and lost to MBC including Sheila Frankowski and Carol Zuro

Targeting stress signaling to enhance immunotherapy against metastatic breast cancer

Madeline Oudin, BSc, MSc, PhD

Tufts University

Presented by METAribbon Challengers

Investigating how obesity-driven changes in the tumor microenvironment promote metastatic outgrowth and chemoresistance in metas

Diwakar Pattabiraman, PhD

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Presented in memory of Dee Dee Miller by Play: CLE to Cure: MBC

Differentiation therapy for metastatic breast cancer

Naiara Perurena, PhD, PharmD

Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Presented by the Minneapolis Metsquerade In Memory of Lindsay Block

Developing combinatorial therapeutic strategies for metastatic HER2+ breast cancer

Gangadhara Sareddy PhD

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Presented in memory of Erica Griffiths, Founder of Living with MBC DENJPA

Targeting TNBC brain metastases using a brain penetrable KDM1A inhibitor

Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Metastatic niche metabolomes and epigenetic heterogeneity in breast cancer

Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, PhD

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Presented by Metavivor Facebook Fundraisers

Co-targeting immunosuppression and skeletal pathology for metastatic breast cancer therapy

Jitesh Pratap, PhD

Rush University

Presented by METAvivor’s community of followers on social media in honor of all of those touched by metastatic breast cancer

Targeting microtubule dynamics and endosomal trafficking for bone metastasis of breast cancer

JITESH PRATAP, PhD

Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology

Novel Regulatory Mechanisms of Cell Survival During Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer

Marjan Rafat, PhD

Vanderbilt University – Nashville, TN

Presented by the Bayhill 9 Holers and Friends, Honoring the Memory of Linda Pizzolato

An engineered bone marrow microenvironment model to investigate the impact of stiffness in breast cancer metastasis