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December 14, 2023
Announcement, Recognition, Research
SPORE: CEP/DRP, Research, SPORE

Six Researchers Awarded Funding from SPORE Year 7 for Innovative Kidney Cancer Research

December 14, 2023
SPORE: CEP/DRP, Research, SPORE
Announcement, Recognition, Research

Six UTSW researchers have been granted prestigious SPORE subawards to advance the field of kidney cancer research. This competitive program is part of the larger Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant and is designed to support innovative studies through two key initiatives: the Career Enhancement Program (CEP) and the Developmental Research Program (DRP).

The CEP awardees are: Drs. Gerta Hoxhaj, Lindsay Cowell, and Tao Yue (pictured in the top row, left to right).

The DRP awardees are: Drs. Ben Sabari, Jing Wang, and Adeniyi Adebesin (pictured in the bottom row, left to right).

Congratulations awardees!

December 14, 2022
Recognition
SPORE: CEP/DRP, Research, SPORE

Kidney SPORE Year 6 awards 9 recipients with DRP/CEP funding

December 14, 2022
SPORE: CEP/DRP, Research, SPORE
Recognition
Eight outstanding awardees will be supported as part of SPORE Year 3 Developmental Research and Career Enhancement Programs (DRP and CEP). The DRP awardees are: Drs. Srinivas Malladi, Chad Rethorst, and Tao Wang. CEP awards went to Drs. Alberto Diaz de Leon, Keri Drake, Nick Grishin, Jin Jiang, and Ram Mani. Research proposal topics ranged from identifying determinants of metastatic latency to whole body detection of osseous metastases to identifying the cell origin of Wilms tumor.

Nine outstanding awardees will be supported as part of SPORE Year 6 Developmental Research and Career Enhancement Programs (DRP and CEP), pictured in order of mention. The DRP awardees, pictured in the top row, are: Drs. Ian Corbin, Peter Ly, Srinivas Malladi, and Daniel Siegwart. CEP awardees pictured in the bottom row, are: Drs. Qian Cong, Lindsay Cowell, Prashant Mishra, Ben Sabari, and Tuoqi Wu. Congratulations!