2024 PCF Challenge Award
Donors: Anonymous, Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman, Adam Aron (AMC Cares), Greg Brown, William Corry, Jason Safriet, Jack Hidary, Asha Jadeja
Novel Inhibitors of Prostate Cancer Lineage Plasticity and Therapy Resistance
Principal Investigators: Michael Freeman, PhD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), James Turkson, PhD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Medicine), Ramachandran Murali, PhD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
Co-Investigators: Michael Jung, PhD (University of California, Los Angeles), Sungyong You, PhD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Francisco Javier Lopez-Tapia, PhD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
Young Investigator: Qian Galaxy Yang, PhD
2024 Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) – PCF Challenge Award
Targeting CRPC at the Intersection of Alternative Polyadenylation and Cellular Plasticity
Principal Investigators: Scott Dehm, PhD (University of Minnesota), Justin Drake, PhD (University of Minnesota), Hongbo Pang, PhD (University of Minnesota)
Co-Investigators: Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD (University of Minnesota), Justin Hwang, PhD (University of Minnesota)
Young Investigator: Kiel Tietz, PhD (University of Minnesota)
2024 AIRA Matrix – PCF Challenge Award
Quantitative MRI to Guide Targeted Radiotherapy for Aggressive, Pre-Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Principal Investigators: Tyler Seibert, MD, PhD (University of California, San Diego), Mirabela Rusu, PhD (Stanford University), Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH (University of California, San Francisco), Jeffry Simko, MD, PhD (University of California, San Francisco),
Co-Investigators: Ahmed Shabaik, MD (University of California, San Diego), Michael Hahn, MD, PhD (University of California, San Diego), Jingjing Zou, PhD (University of California, San Diego), Xenia Ray, PhD (University of California, San Diego), Anders Dale, PhD (University of California, San Diego), Christopher Kane, MD (University of California, San Diego), Aditya Bagrodia, MD (University of California, San Diego), Sean Woolen, MD (University of California, San Francisco), Geoffrey Sonn, MD (Stanford University), Uttara Joshi, MBBS (AIRA Matrix), Nitin Singhal, MS (AIRA Matrix), Robert Dess, MD (University of Michigan), Uulke A. van der Heide, PhD (Leiden University Medical Center)
Young Investigator: Sophia Kamran, MD (Harvard: Massachusetts General Hospital)
2024 PCF Special Challenge Award (Anonymous)
Isotopic Fingerprinting of Hair to Detect the Presence of Cancer
Principal Investigators: Kenneth Pienta, MD (Johns Hopkins University), Emma Hammarlund, PhD (Lund University, Sweden)
Co-Investigators: Kazi Julhash Uddin, PhD (Lund University, Sweden), Bruce Trock, PhD, MPH (Johns Hopkins University)
2024 The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund – PCF Challenge Award
Multicolor PET Imaging to Interrogate Prostate Cancer Biology
Principal Investigator: Jan Grimm, MD, PhD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Co-Investigators: Jason Lewis, PhD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), Michael Morris, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Young Investigator: Karla Vazquez-Prada, PhD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Collaborators: Anis Hamid, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)