Past DF/HCC Incubator Awards

Awarded Projects

Project PIs	Institution	Title of Proposal	Funder
Eric Smith Ryan Flynn	DFCI BCH	Cell surface RNA binding proteins as a novel antigen target class for immunotherapies	DF/HCC Cancer Center Support Grant
Jonathan Tsai Srinivas Viswanathan	BWH DFCI	Targeting Androgen Receptor Protein Stability to Overcome Hormonal Resistance in Advanced Prostate Cancer	DF/HCC Cancer Center Support Grant
Xin Gu Liron Bar-Peled Nikhil Munshi	DFCI MGH DFCI	Targeting the midnolin-proteasome pathway for treating multiple myeloma	Ludwig Center
Arlene Sharpe David Liu	HMS DFCI	Immune regulation of organotropic metastasis	Ludwig Center

Awarded Projects

Project PIs	Institution	Title of Proposal	Funder
Vish Viswanath Lindsay Frazier	DFCI BCH/DFCI	Addressing Cancer Misinformation and Promoting Cancer Prevention Among Youth Through Social Media: A Participatory Approach	DF/HCC Cancer Center Support Grant
Mingyang Song Peter Sorger Kun Yu	HSPH HMS HMS	Integrating electronic health record data with deep learning computational pathology and single-cell tissue profiling for tailored colonoscopy surveillance	DF/HCC Cancer Center Support Grant
Rizwan Romee David Barbie Robert Manguso	DFCI DFCI MGH	STING seeking CXCR3-engineered memory-like NK CARs for enhanced immunotherapy in solid malignancies	Ludwig Center
Li Jia Steve Balk	BWH BIDMC	Chromosome 13q genomic alterations and therapeutics in prostate cancer	Ludwig Center

Awarded Projects

Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG)

Project PIs	Institution	Title of Proposal	Funder
Catherine J. Wu Jonathan C. Kagan	DFCI BCH	NextVax: A novel personal whole tumor cell-mimic / hyperactivated dendritic cell vaccine	LUDWIG
Jessalyn Ubellacker Taru Muranen Ted A. James	HSPH BIDMC BIDMC	Revealing and targeting lipidomic vulnerabilties to treat metastatic breast cancer	LUDWIG
Sapna Syngal Guillermo Tearney Lecia Sequist Andy Chan (Co-I) Towia Libermann (Co-I) Michael Rosenthal (Co-I)	DFCI MGH MGH MGH BIDMC DFCI	Assessment of novel technologies for early detection of cancer in individuals with germline cancer predisposition	Zhu
Ann Mullally Gabriel Griffin Max Jan Robert Manguso	DFCI DFCI MGH MGH	Mutant CALR-targeted CAR T cells	Bertarelli / CCSG
Kathy Burns David Ting Bo Rueda Samuel Klempner Steve Skates	DFCI MGH MGH MGH MGH	Development of an Ultrasensitive Blood Test for LINE-1 ORF 1p for Ovarian and Esophageal Cancer Detection	CCSG
Peter van Galen Sandra S. McAllister Andrew A. Lane Vijay G. Sankaran Elizabeth A. Mittendorf	BWH BWH DFCI BCH BWH	Immunological Basis of Age- and Race-Related Disparities in Breast Cancer Outcomes	CCSG smaller grant