2010-2012 RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS
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further explore their research projects.

PEDIATRIC CANCER - Neuroblastoma
Shahab Asgharzadeh, M.D.
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
www.chla.org

BRAIN CANCER
Steven Bensinger, V.M.D, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
www.ucla.edu

CANCER GENETICS
Patricia Dahia, M.D., Ph.D.
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
www.uthscsa.edu

BREAST CANCER
Andrea Dorfleutner, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
www.northwestern.edu

BRAIN CANCER
Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, M.D.
University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Houston, TX
www.mdanderson.org

BREAST CANCER
Eva Gonzalez-Suarez, Ph.D.
Funded by The Save the Tatas Foundation
Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research
Barcelona, Spain
www.pebc.cat
www.idibell.cat

CANCER GENETICS
Geraldine Guasch, Ph.D.
Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH
www.cincinnatichildrens.org

CANCER VISUALIZATION TOOLS
Zeynep Gumus, Ph.D.
Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of
Cornell University
New York, NY
www.med.cornell.edu

PROSTATE CANCER
Li Jia, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
www.wustl.edu

PEDIATRIC CANCER - Leukemia
Yong-Mi Kim, Ph.D., M.D., M.P.H.
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
www.chla.org

LEUKEMIA
Ya-Huei Kuo, Ph.D.
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope
Duarte, CA
www.cityofhope.org

LEUKEMIA
Richard Maser, Ph.D.
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, ME
www.jax.org

LYMPHOMA
Nami McCarty, Ph.D.
UT Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX
www.uthouston.edu

PROSTATE CANCER
Mari Shinohara, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
www.dukehealth.edu

PEDIATRIC CANCER GENETICS
Vera Tarakanova, Ph.D.
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
www.mcw.edu

ONGOING RESEARCH ENDOWMENTS
George Klein, M.D.
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm Sweden
www.ki.se

Concern Foundation’s annual endowment to the Karolinska Institute supported 18 researchers who are developing new and novel approaches in four areas:

A) Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus (HHV-8)
B) Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes
C) Tumor Immunology
D) Cytotoxic Drug Sensitivity

The Lautenberg Center
Jerusalem Israel
www.huji.ac.il

For twenty years, Concern Foundation has been proud to support the fine work of the Lautenberg Center. This annual endowment is supported by a generous grant from the Ahmanson Foundation. Fourteen scientists are currently supported by the endowment:

Rami I. Aqeilan
Michael Baniyash
Yinon Ben Neriah
Shlomo Z. Ben-Sasson
Ruth Gallily
Ygal Haupt
Shoshana Israel
Eli Kedar
Moshe Kotler
Ofer Mandelboim
David Naor
Eli Pikarsky
Michael Steinitz
Eitan Yefenof