2008-2010 RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS
BASIC CANCER (BREAST)
Feng Gong, Ph.D.
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
www.miami.edu

BASIC CANCER (COLORECTAL CANCER)
Samir Acharya, Ph.D.
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
www.osu.edu

BRAIN CANCER
Susan Mendrysa, Ph.D.
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
www.purdue.edu

BREAST CANCER
Matthew Hartman, Ph.D.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
www.vcu.edu

IMMUNOBIOLOGY (LEUKEMIA)
Diana Gil Pages, PhD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
www.mayo.edu

IMMUNOLOGY
Manel Camps, Ph.D.
University of California
Santa Cruz, California
www.ucsc.edu

LEUKEMIA
Benjamin Braun, M.D., PhD
University of California
San Francisco, California
www.ucsf.edu

LIVER CANCER
Wendong Huang, PhD
City of Hope
Duarte, California
www.cityofhope.org

LUNG CANCER
Tanya Kalin, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
www.cincinnatichildrens.org

LUNG CANCER
Rotem Karni, PhD
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
www.huji.ac.il

LUNG CANCER
Andrei Khokhlatchev, Ph.D.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
www.virginia.edu

LUNG CANCER
Pier Paolo Scaglioni, M.D., Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
www.utsouthwestern.edu

LYMPHOMA
Ricardo Aguiar, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas
www.uthscsa.edu

LYMPHOMA
Ignacio Moreno de Alboran, Ph.D.
Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia
Madrid, Spain
www.cnb.uam.es

MELANOMA
Eva M. Hernando, Ph.D.
New York University
New York, New York
www.nyu.edu

MELANOMA
James Lister, Ph.D.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
www.vcu.edu

PANCREATIC CANCER
Farzad Esni, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
www.pitt.edu

PROSTATE CANCER
Paramita Ghosh, Ph.D.
University of California
Davis, California
www.ucdavis.edu

SARCOMA
Jack Bui, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California
San Diego, California
www.ucsd.edu

UTERINE CANCER
Takiko Daikoku, Ph.D.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio
www.cincinnatichildrens.org

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