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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.

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
Abstract Report

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
Abstract Report
Summary Report

Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Metastatic niche metabolomes and epigenetic heterogeneity in breast cancer
Abstract Report
Summary Report

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
Abstract Report
Summary Report

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
Abstract Report
Summary Report

JITESH PRATAP, PhD

Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Novel Regulatory Mechanisms of Cell Survival During Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer
Abstract Report
Summary Report

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
Abstract Report
Summary Report

Pranela Rameshwar, PhD

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Presented in honor of Tami Bowling and METAvivors of NJ
Preventing epigenetic-mediated DNA repair induced by bone marrow niche cells to eliminate drug resistance
Abstract Report
Summary Report

Pranela Rameshwar, PhD

Rutgers University
Presented by METAvivor Facebook Fundraisers in honor of all people living with MBC
Towards precise treatment for metastatic breast cancer in black patients
Abstract Report
Summary Report

Shreyas Rao, PhD

The University of Alabama
Presented by Metavivor Facebook Fundraisers
Engineered biomimetic hydrogels to probe metastatic tumor cell cluster–brain microenvironment interactions facilitating tumor progression
Abstract Report
Summary Report

Sangeetha Reddy, MD, MSCI

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Presented by MetGala Santa Clarita
Differential response to therapies stimulating antigen presentation by sites of metastases in triple negative breast cancer
Abstract Report

Angelina Regua, PhD

The University of Texas Health Science Center
Presented by Tonya’s Hope In Memory and Honor of Tonyia Lucas
Understanding and overcoming resistance of breast cancer brain metastases to RET inhibition
Abstract Report
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