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BCRFA Funds O’Neal Cancer Research with Recent Grants
The BCRFA is pleased to announce $210,000 in funding to…
BCRFA Funds UAB Research on Exercise, Gut Microbiome, and Breast Cancer: Increasing Reach to Underserved Populations (EMBRACE)
Dr. Laura Rogers, Professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine, Department…
Flamin’ Hot News: CahabaQue BBQ Cook-Off Raises Over $31,000 for Local Breast Cancer Research
Cahaba Brewing Company and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of…
BCRFA Welcomes Jatava Burns As Marketing And Communications Coordinator
Jatava brings a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector…
It’s Great News for Breast Cancer Research! Over $140,000 raised at the 16th annual Pink Palace Casino Night
Over 200 guests joined the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of…
BCRFA Fuels UAB Breast Cancer Research With Recent Grants
RECENTLY FUNDED RESEARCH
Thanks to generous supporters like you, the BCRFA invested $1.25 million in 35 breast cancer research projects at 8 institutes across the state in 2023.
Birmingham
Evaluating associations of rurality and neighborhood disadvantage with racial disparities in breast cancer mortality among women in the state of Alabama
Ritu Aneja, PhD
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Neuropathological effects of chemotherapeutic drugs
Dr. Sofia Beas
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Predicting the Risk of Heart Failure in Breast Cancer Survivors
Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH
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Understanding how multi-level factors influence cancer clinical trial enrollment decisions by patients living in higher disadvantaged areas
Dr. Nicole Caston
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FAM129B/NIBAN2 as a biomarker for therapy with NRF2 inhibitors
Anindya Dutta, MD, PhD
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Targeting CSF1R/PU.1 signaling and PU.1 super-enhancer regulation in tumor progression across breast cancer subtypes
Blake Eason Hildreth, III, DVM, MS, PhD
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Phase II single arm trial of low dose capecitabine in patients with advanced breast cancer
Katia Khoury, MD
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Hijacking axonogenesis to promote breast cancer by a subset of regulatory T cells
Jianmei Leavenworth, MD, PhD
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Nuclear FAK-mediated epigenetic reprogramming of triple negative breast cancer
Dr. Steve Lim
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Research conducted by Breast Surgical Fellow
Dr. Catherine Parker
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Elucidating the effects of hypoxia on ribosome biogenesis in breast cancer
Dr. Amr Rafat
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Unique Arteriolar Niche in Expansion of Breast Cancer Stem Cells for Metastasis
Bin Ren, MD, PhD
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A novel clinically actionable approach to disable resurgence and metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer
Lalita Shevde-Samant, PhD
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Mitochondrial trafficking in triple negative breast cancer
Drs. Keshav Singh and Sejong Bae
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PDL1-targeted theranostic approaches to enhance combination therapy in TNBC
Dr. Anna Sorace
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MammOnc-DB: Development of a comprehensive breast cancer platform for data analysis, integration and visualization
Dr. Sooryanarayana Varambally
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Identifying ideal reimbursement “dose” to reduce clinical trial-related financial toxicity
Dr. Courtney Williams
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Developing novel AKT degrader to selectively inhibit the growth of PI3K/AKT/PTEN pathway mutant breast cancer
Jia Xu, PhD
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Chronic stress-regulated tumor-neuroimmune network in triple-negative breast cancer
Chao Zhang, MD, PhD
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Getting the right treatment to the right patient by matching regimens to patient biopsy before treatment
Karim I. Budhwani, PhD, DLA and Chelsea Crawford, PhD
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Mobile
WNK1, A Novel Regulator of Metastatic Breast Cancer
Dr. Debanjan Chakroborty
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Circulating mitochondrial DNA for the detection of breast cancer progression and recurrence
Dr. Santanu Dasgupta
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Contribution of PERK+ Polyploid Giant Cancer Cells in the Ethnic Disparity of Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Dr. Luis del Pozo-Yauner
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Targeting the nerve-cancer crosstalk to prevent breast cancer metastasis
Dr. Simon Grelet
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Adipocyte and lymphatic endothelial cell crosstalk in breast cancer
Dr. Chandrani Sarkar
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Unfolding a novel mechanism for endocrine resistance in breast cancer
Dr. Ajay Singh
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Influence of stress on immune landscape and spatial heterogeneity of breast cancer
Dr. Seema Singh
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Auburn
Highly Active Liposomal Formulation of Proteasome Inhibitor Carfilzomib for the Treatment of TNBC
Dr. Alexei F. Kisselev
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A novel strategy to prevent the development of drug resistance in breast cancer
Dr. Amit Mitra
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Development of advanced substitute antibody phage probes for screening/detection of breast cancer using sensitive inexpensive blood tests
Dr. Valery Petrenko
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Carrier-free quercetin nanoparticles for overcoming breast cancer drug resistance
Drs. Yuping Bao and Robert Arnold
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Huntsville
Inherited breast cancer risk screening and education – Access Matters
Dr. Sara Cooper
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Tuscaloosa
Engineered environments to probe immune cell-mediated reawakening of dormant breast cancer brain micrometastasis
Dr. Shreyas Rao
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Tuskegee
Cancer genomic study to characterize genetic and epigenetic diversity of immune landscape in triple negative breast cancer in women of African ethnicity
Dr. Deepa Bedi
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BCRFA partners with Astound Research to help bridge the gap between researchers and funding
Each year the BCRFA issues a formal Request for Proposals (RFP) to Alabama-based researchers working on any project…