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Institution: MD Anderson Cancer Center

2022 Grant Recipients

  • Sammy Ferri-Borgogno, PhD
    Liz Tilberis Early Career Award
    BRCA-deficient Ovarian Cancer and IFITM3: a New Power Couple
  • Chi Lam Au Yeung, PhD
    Liz Tilberis Early Career Award
    Cancer-derived Exosomal miRNAs Modulate Ovarian Tumor Microenvironment
  • Gamze Bildik Elcik, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    DIRAS3 Inhibits KRAS and Sensitizes LGSOC Cells to Anti-autophagic Therapy

2021 Grant Recipients

  • Sammy Ferri-Borgogno, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Spatially-Resolved Cellular and Transcriptome Analyses of Ovarian Cancer
  • Ronja Anugwom, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Determine Resistance Mechanisms to ATR Inhibition in Ovarian Cancers

2020 Grant Recipients

  • Nidhi Sahni, PhD
    Liz Tilberis Early Career Award
    Systems Approach for PARP-based Novel Combination Therapy in Ovarian Cancer
  • Janice Santiago, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Crizotinib Improves the Therapeutic Efficacy of Olaparib in Ovarian Cancer

2019 Grant Recipients

  • Guy Katz, MD, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Therapeutic miRNA Targeting for Ovarian Cancer
  • Elaine Stur, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Re-activating Anti-tumor Immunity Targeting PSEN1 in CAFS in Ovarian Cancer
  • Min Soon Cho, PhD
    Liz Tilberis Early Career Award
    The Role of Platelet in the Regulation of Immune Response to Ovarian Cancer

2018 Grant Recipients

2017 Grant Recipients

  • Nabanita Chatterjee, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Ovarian Cancer Disrupts Circadian Cortisol Rhythms
  • Gilbert Huang, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Targeting Dormant Ovarian Cancer Cells with Peptide Inhibitors of Autophagy

2016 Grant Recipients

  • Song Yi Ko, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    A “Trojan Horse” Mechanism That Mediates Resistance to Anti-VEGF Therapy
  • Zihua Gong, MD, PhD
    Liz Tilberis Early Career Award
    DNA Repair Pathways as Target for Therapy-Resistant Ovarian Cancer
  • Sherry Wu, PhD
    Liz Tilberis Early Career Award
    Re-activating Anti-tumor Immunity Using Non-coding RNAs

2015 Grant Recipients

  • Justyna Filant, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Novel Extra Cellular RNA-based Combinatorial RNA Inhibition Therapy

2014 Grant Recipients

  • Kyung Hee Noh, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Targeting Adaptive Changes to anti-VEGF Therapy in Ovarian Cancer
  • Chi Lam Au Yeung, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Adipose Tissue Derived Exosomal miRNAs in Ovarian Cancer Progression

2013 Grant Recipients

  • Anil K. Sood, MD
    Collaborative Research Development Grant
    Power of Platelets in Ovarian Cancer
  • Pradeep Chaluvally-Raghavan, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Role of microRNAs in the 3q26 Amplicon in Ovarian Cancer Pathophysiology and Therapy

2012 Grant Recipients

  • Ngai Na Co, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    The Role of Stromal microRNA 21 in Omental Ovarian Cancer Progression
  • Melinda Yates, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Unraveling the Initiation of Ovarian Cancer: The BRCA1-Heterozygous Mouse as a Model System

2011 Grant Recipients

  • Sharmistha Sarkar, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Finding a Marker to Detect Early Stage Ovarian Cancer
  • Sherry Wu, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Novel Approach to Destroy the Blood Supply that Feeds Ovarian Cancer Tumors
  • Tsz-Lun Yeung, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Understanding How Ovarian Cancer Spreads
  • Ann Klopp, MD, PhD
    Liz Tilberis Early Career Award
    Fat Cells May Be Source of Stem Cells That Promote Ovarian Cancer

2009 Grant Recipients

  • Anil K. Sood, MD
    Collaborative Research Development Grant
    Novel Treatments for Ovarian Cancer Using siRNAs

2008 Grant Recipients

  • Weiwei Shan, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Cellular Microenvironment Role in Ovarian Cancer Development
  • Robert C. Bast Jr., MD
    Collaborative Research Development Grant
    Autophagy and Ovarian Cancer

2005 Grant Recipients

  • Anil K. Sood, MD
    Collaborative Research Development Grant
    Novel siRNA Based Therapeutic Approaches for Ovarian Carcinoma
  • Donna Badgewell, PhD
    Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
    Developing a Screening Test for Ovarian Cancer

2003 Grant Recipients

2002 Grant Recipients

  • Honami Naora, MD, PhD
    Individual Investigator Award
    How Cells Migrate in the Drosophila Ovary May Lead to a Better Understanding of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis
  • Xiang-Jun Fang, PhD
    Individual Investigator Award
    The Role of a Lipid Molecule in Promoting Ovarian Cancer Tumor Growth

2000 Grant Recipients

  • Karen H. Lu, MD
    Liz Tilberis Early Career Award
    Understanding the Molecular Differences in Histologic Grades of Ovarian Cancer: Implications for Discovering New Prognostic Markers
  • Wei Hu, MD, PhD
    Individual Investigator Award
    Effects of a Novel Combination Drug Treatment on Cell Lines Derived from Human Ovarian Cancer

1999 Grant Recipients

  • Jon Wiener, PhD
    Individual Investigator Award
    Studying the Role of the Protein Src in Ovarian Cancer

1998 Grant Recipients