{"id":282563,"date":"2025-12-05T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dallasinnovates.com\/?p=282563"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:44:30","slug":"cprit-awards-grants-to-15-dallas-fort-worth-researchers-in-latest-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dallasinnovates.com\/cprit-awards-grants-to-15-dallas-fort-worth-researchers-in-latest-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"CPRIT Awards Grants to 15 Dallas-Fort&nbsp;Worth Researchers in Latest Funding Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-test-render-count=\"2\">\n<div class=\"group relative pb-8\" data-is-streaming=\"false\">\n<div class=\"font-claude-response relative leading-[1.65rem] [&amp;_pre&gt;div]:bg-bg-000\/50 [&amp;_pre&gt;div]:border-0.5 [&amp;_pre&gt;div]:border-border-400 [&amp;_.ignore-pre-bg&gt;div]:bg-transparent [&amp;_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&amp;_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8 [&amp;_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&amp;_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8\">\n<div class=\"standard-markdown grid-cols-1 grid gap-4 [&amp;_&gt;_*]:min-w-0 standard-markdown\">\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \"><strong>The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas approved 15 grants in November totaling nearly $18.4 million for North Texas researchers and institutions in its latest funding round, part of a statewide investment of almost $154 million announced Nov. 19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \">UT Southwestern Medical Center dominated the region&#8217;s awards with 13 grants spanning recruitment, prevention, and research. UT Dallas captured two research grants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Texas has invested $4 billion in the fight against one of the world&#8217;s greatest public health challenges,&#8221; said CPRIT CEO Kristen Doyle, herself a cancer survivor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Doyle said the support has helped the state lead the search for breakthrough treatments, develop new cancer-fighting drugs and devices, and save &#8220;tens of thousands of lives through early cancer detection and prevention.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \">Dallas-Fort Worth CPRIT recipients and their respective categories include:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-claude-response-heading text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Recruitment<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">CPRIT awarded $2 million to <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> to recruit <strong>Elijah Mena<\/strong> to Dallas.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-claude-response-heading text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Prevention<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>UT Southwestern received two prevention grants totaling nearly $5 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Keith E. Argenbright<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Fort Worth received $2.5 million for &#8220;Increasing Access to Cervical Cancer Screening and Patient Navigation in North Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>David Gerber<\/strong> <strong>UT Southwestern <\/strong>in Dallas received $2.4 million for &#8220;Integrated lung cancer screening and tobacco cessation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-claude-response-heading text-text-100 mt-1 -mb-0.5\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Research<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The research category drew 12 awards worth nearly $12 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Saikat Mukhopadhyay<\/strong> at UT <strong>Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $1.2 million for &#8220;Study of primary cilium maintenance as a dependency in SHH medulloblastoma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Jie Zheng<\/strong> at <strong>UT Dallas<\/strong> in Richardson received $900,000 for &#8220;High-contrast fluorescence imaging of non-enhancing brain metastases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Payal Kapur<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $1 million for &#8220;Advancing Clinical Decision-Making through Machine Learning on Underutilized Data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Tao Yue<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern in Dallas<\/strong> received $900,000 for &#8220;Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance for the Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Michalis Agathocleous<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $900,000 for &#8220;Mechanisms of blood cancer suppression by ascorbate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>YI LI<\/strong> at <strong>UT Dallas<\/strong> in Richardson received $899,216 for &#8220;Antisense Oligonucleotide Targeting Strategies for NAB2-STAT6 Solitary Fibrous Tumors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Tuoqi Wu<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $1.2 million for &#8220;Target the Redox Sensing Pathway to Enhance Anti-Tumor T-cell Immunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Deepak Nijhawan<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $898,004 for &#8220;Development of tumor activated IMPDH inhibitors to treat glioblastoma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Zhenyu Zhong<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $900,000 for &#8220;Sympathetic Innervation Controls the Development of Obesity-Associated Liver Cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Gerta Hoxhaj<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $900,000 for &#8220;Decoding Compartmentalized Redox Metabolism in Melanoma Metastasis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Kathryn O&#8217;Donnell<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $900,000 for &#8220;Oncogenic activity and therapeutic targeting of serine protease TMPRSS11B in lung cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>David Gerber<\/strong> at <strong>UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $894,790 for &#8220;Mechanisms and treatment of immunotherapy toxicity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal \">The statewide funding round approved 73 grants and pushed CPRIT&#8217;s total investment past $4 billion, making Texas the largest state funder of cancer research in the nation. CPRIT stands as the second-largest funder of cancer research in the country after the National Cancer Institute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every Texan should know this effort matters, and we&#8217;re not finished yet,&#8221; Doyle said. &#8220;Together, we will conquer cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: none; height: 4px; background: #e5e5e5; margin: 20px 0; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 600; margin: 0 0 16px 0;\">Don&#8217;t miss what&#8217;s next. 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