Research Grants

Sarcoma Research

ASCO Cancer Foundation Grants

The SFA is proud to be a supporter of six ASCO Cancer Foundation grants.  The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is a non-profit organization with the goals of improving cancer care and prevention, and ensuring that all patients with cancer receive the highest quality of care.  As the philanthropic arm of the ASCO, the ASCO Cancer Foundation funds research and education programs both in the U.S. and abroad.  Over the past five years, the SFA has helped to fund four ASCO Young Investigator Awards and two Advanced Clinical Research Awards in Sarcoma.

ASCO Career Development Award

The Career Development Award provides cancer research funding to clinical investigators in the first to third year of faculty appointment to establish an independent clinical cancer research program.  The Career Development Award is a three-year cancer grant totaling $200,000.

2012 Career Development Award
Mrinal Gounder, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)   
A Phase III, double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of sorafenib in desmoid tumors or aggressive fibromatosis (DT/DF)

ASCO Advanced Clinical Research Award

The Advanced Clinical Research Award is designed to fund investigators who are committed to clinical cancer research and who wish to conduct original research not currently funded.  These grants are for a total of $450,000 over a three-year period.

2010 Advanced Clinical Research Award
David G. Kirsch, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology
“Using Molecular Imaging to Identify Microscopic Residual Sarcoma Cells During Surgery”

2008 Advanced Clinical Research Award
Raphael Rousseau, MD, PhD, Centre Leon Berard, Institut d’Hematologie-Oncologie Pediatrique
“Nanoparticle-based Targeting Tumor Neoangiogenesis to Improve Surgical Resection of PrimaryTtumor and Lung Metastasis in Advanced Osteosarcoma “

ASCO Young Investigator Award

The YIA is a one-year grant designed to encourage and promote high quality research in clinical oncology by providing funds to promising investigators during the transition from a fellowship program to a faculty appointment.  The SFA encourages the development of young oncologists, supporting the future leaders of Sarcoma research and treatment.

2012 ASCO Young Investigator Award
David Van Mater, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center  
“A role for injury in sarcomagenesis”

2010 ASCO Young Investigator Award
Jeffrey Harold Rothman, MD, PhD, Columbia University Medical Center
“Obstruction of Transcription at Tumorigenic Chromosomal Translocations as Therapy”

2009 ASCO Young Investigator Award
Nino Rainusso, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital
“Identification and Characterization of Tumor-Initiating Cells in Human Osteocarcoma – A Model to Unravel the “Roots of Evil” in Bone Cancer”

2006 ASCO Young Investigator Award
Raymond Meng, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
“Targeting the Notch Signaling Pathway: A Novel Method to Inhibit Sarcomas with Constitutive Ras Activation”

2005 ASCO Young Investigator Award
John Lee, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
“Evaluation of the Hedgehog Signaling Pathway in the Growth of Myogenic Sarcomas”

 

 

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