Here are 23 oncology grants over $1.4 million:
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston received $5.7 million in funding from the Break Through Cancer foundation to support research into eradicating acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of skin cancer.
- Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine received a $35 million gift from Theodore Giovanis, a researcher, philanthropist and race car driver.
- Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health, both based in Philadelphia, received $1.5 million to modernize its research facilities.
- A researcher at Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences received a five-year, $3.19 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate advanced therapeutic treatments for certain types of cancer.
- College Station-based Texas A&M received a $6 million grant to support a new Texas Regional Excellence in Cancer.
- Augusta-based Georgia Cancer Center received a $2.3 million grant to understand how cancer cells resist primary treatment.
- Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health received a $2.5 million gift from Barbara and Dick Couch to establish the Couch Endowed Fund for Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellowships at Dartmouth Cancer Center.
- The Jordan Spieth Family Foundation gave Augusta-based Children's Hospital of Georgia a grant to fund a full-time social worker and travel expenses for pediatric cancer patients and their families.
- New Brunswick-based Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center are partnering on a $3.2 million National Cancer Institute grant to examine racial disparity in cancer care through novel approaches to genetic testing and community-based care needs.
- Plainsboro, N.J.-based Penn Medicine Princeton Cancer Center received $2.5 million to fund its geriatric oncology program.
- Ten scientists at Dallas-based The Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center received nearly $15 million in grants to advance research on a wide range of cancer issues.
- UT Health San Antonio received $4.1 million to fund research into the cancer-related health burdens that disproportionately affect the South Texas Latino community.
- Oklahoma City-based Stephenson Cancer Center received $1.7 million to develop the Oklahoma Mobile Lung Cancer Screening Action Network, which will use medically equipped buses to screen for lung cancer.
- A Miami-based Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher was awarded more than $1.4 million to help construction workers quit smoking.
- Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC School of Medicine, New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine and Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have received $3.5 million to improve screening and preventive treatment of cervical cancer for women living with HIV in low-resource countries.
- The University at Buffalo (N.Y.) received a five-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to advance the safety and effectiveness of targeted drugs that treat acute myeloid leukemia.
- Charlottesville-based University of Virginia's Comprehensive Cancer Center will establish the Center for Systems Analysis of Stress-Adapted Cancer Organelles, which seeks to find the cause of cancer in individual organelles, thanks to a $12 million grant.
- Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope is part of a consortium that received an $8 million grant to develop clinic-ready CAR-T cell therapies for advanced prostate cancer.
- New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine was awarded a five-year, $8.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate the effects of the immune response in irradiated rectal cancer.
- Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine received a $3.5 million National Cancer Institute grant to improve cervical cancer care in Botswana.
- New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine researchers received a five-year $5.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to fund a center aimed at developing mRNA cancer vaccines.
- Honolulu-based University of Hawai'i Cancer Center and the Los Angeles-based University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center received another $12.1 million grant for their Multiethnic Cohort Study, the most ethnically diverse epidemiological study in the world that follows 215,000 residents of Hawai'i and Southern California for development of cancer and other chronic diseases.
- Charleston, S.C.-based MUSC Hollings Cancer Center cancer immunologist Silvia Guglietta, PhD, received a $2.4 million grant to further her studies in colon cancer inflammation.