Bottom: Srinivas Malladi, Ph.D.; Qing Zhang, Ph.D.
The Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Kidney Cancer Research Program awards more than $2.7 million in research funding to six UTSW Kidney Cancer Program investigators.
Drs. Payal Kapur and Satwick Rajaram received an Idea Development Award ($980,839) to evaluate digital pathology and deep learning to predict treatment response. Dr. Srinivas Malladi received an Early Career Idea Development Award ($983,478) to delineate latency and relapse determinants in metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). Dr. Qing Zhang received a Concept Award ($163,670) to identify functionally important enhancers in kidney cancer. Jong-Sun Lee, Ph.D., with the Mendell Lab received a Postdoctoral Award ($319,800) to understand the role of nonlongcoding RNAs in kidney cancer. Faeze Saatchi, Ph.D., with the Brugarolas Lab also received a Postdoctoral Award ($319,307) to identify molecular mechanisms underlying HIF2-independent tumorigenesis.
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