Hector Franco, PhDUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill2022 Lester and Bernice Smith Pilot Study Award Identifying Drivers of Therapeutic Resistance in Ovarian Cancer at Single-Cell Resolution Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest cancers among women worldwide. Most women respond well to the standard treatment; however, up to 75% of these patients experience a recurrence […]
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Toni Antalis, PhDUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore2022 Rosser Family Pilot Study Award Emerging roles of MASP activation in ovarian cancer metastasis and acquired chemoresistance While ovarian cancer responds well to initial treatments, it frequently returns due to acquired chemotherapy resistance. Although chemotherapies aim slow or stop tumor growth, cancer cells continue to evolve between chemotherapy cycles. […]
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Multimodal single-cell surfaceome and transcriptome profiling of longitudinal high-grade ovarian cancer ascites samples Despite advances in the initial treatment of high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC), recurrence of the disease is very common and effective treatment of recurrent HGSOC remains a major challenge. In order for a tumor to gain resistance to chemotherapy and progress into […]
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Melissa Fishel, PhDIndiana University School of Medicine Enhancement of ovarian cancer to chemotherapeutics agents, cisplatin and TMZ, using small molecules, BG and MX With the exception of a small percentage of patients presenting with stage IA/IB ovarian cancer, surgery along is inadequate treatment. However, virtually all patients who die from ovarian cancer have intrinsic or […]
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Jason Wilken, PhD, BSYale University Overcoming Primary Herceptin Resistance in Ovarian Cancer Herceptin, a therapeutic antibody that targets ErbB2 and has a well-tolerated safety profile has proven exceptionally useful as a treatment for ErbB2+ breast cancer patients. Surprisingly, Herceptin has proven to be ineffective as a treatment option for ovarian cancer. Dr. Wilken, with the […]
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Capucine Van Rechem, PhDMassachusetts General Hospital2014 Skacel Family Scholar Copy Gain and Resistance: Uncovering Roles for Epigenetic Regulation in Ovarian Cancer A major issue in the treatment of ovarian cancer is the development of resistance to standard chemotherapy. Such drug resistance has been linked to the gain of a specific genomic region, 1q12-1q21. Dr. Van […]
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Benjamin Izar, MD, PhDDana-Farber Cancer Institute Single-cell transcriptome analysis of treatment-resistant ovarian cancer and new strategies for drug discovery Dr. Izar will be studying in fine detail the molecular changes that take place from the time that ovarian cancer cells respond to platinum chemotherapy to when they become resistant. He will employ an innovative genetic […]
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Elizabeth Harmon Stover, MD, PhDDana-Farber Cancer Institute Genomic analysis of plasma cell-free tumor DNA to evaluate clinical mechanisms of drug resistance in ovarian cancer Many ovarian cancers are able to resist drug treatment and therefore recur after months or years, posing a major challenge for clinicians and researchers. Currently research of resistant tumors is limited […]
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Yaara Oren, Ph.DBroad InstituteCambridge, MA, United States Project: Using a novel single-cell lineage tracing technique to uncover the mechanisms driving ovarian cancer recurrence Research Area: Cancer Biology, Chemotherapy Resistance Summary:Despite a good initial response to chemotherapy, ovarian cancer comes back in the majority of patients and leads to death within 5 years of diagnosis. When the cancer […]
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Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhDDana-Farber Cancer Institute OC130658: Noncoding RNAs as Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers in BRCA 1/2-Mutated and Wildtype Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Patients with epithelial ovarian cancer that carry BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations can successfully be treated with platinum chemotherapy and PARP inhibitors because the BRCA1/2 mutations cause a defect in DNA repair. This allows the […]
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