Cardiovascular Disease Research
Karen P. Alexander, M.D.
Duke University Medical Center
Project: "Preferences and Decision-Making for Cardiac Care in the Elderly"
Roger J. Hajjar, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Project: "Targeting Genes and Modulating Contractile Function in Heart Failure"
Michael V. McConnell, M.D.
Stanford University Medical Center
Project: "Noninvasive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Coronary Plaque"
Cancer Research
Lisa A. Carey, M.D.*
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Project: "Molecular Markers Predicting Response to Breast Cancer Therapy"
*Dr. Carey was a 1999 Awardee but received other funding to support this research and is not a DDCF grantee.
Theodore L. DeWeese, M.D.
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center
Project: "Detection of Biomarkers of Oxidative Damage in Prostatic Tissue DNA from Patients with Prostate Cancer"
James M. Ford, M.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
Project: "Molecular Basis of Drug Sensitivity in Upper GI Cancers"
Nancy L. Keating, M.D., M.P.H.
Harvard Medical School
Project: "The Effect of Physician Specialty on Quality of Breast Cancer Care"
Matthew R. Smith, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Project: "Prevention of Skeletal Morbidity from Prostate Cancer"
Robert H. Vonderheide, M.D., D.Phil.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Project: "Characterization and Therapeutic Utility of Telomerase Catalytic Subunit as a Widely Expressed Tumor-Associated Antigen"
AIDS Research
Deborah Persaud, M.D.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Project: "Cellular Reservoirs for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) in Children"
Peter E. Pertel, M.D.
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Project: "Processing and Function of HHV-8 Glycoproteins"
Eric S. Rosenberg, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Project: "HIV-1-Specific T Cell Help; Does It Prevent Progression?"
Sickle Cell Disease and
Other Blood Disorder Research
David J. Araten, M.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Project: "Somatic Mutations in Ataxia-Telangiectasia"
Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., M.P.H.
Washington University School of Medicine
Project: "Screening for Silent Stroke in Sickle Cell Disease"
Edwin M. Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Project: "Transplantation of Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Cells"