{"id":427478,"date":"2025-12-05T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427478\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:05:14","slug":"cprit-awards-grants-to-15-dallas-fort-worth-researchers-in-latest-funding-round-dallas-innovates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427478\/","title":{"rendered":"CPRIT Awards Grants to 15 Dallas-Fort\u00a0Worth Researchers in Latest Funding Round \u00bb Dallas Innovates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

UT Southwestern Medical Center dominated the region\u2019s awards with 13 grants spanning recruitment, prevention, and research. UT Dallas captured two research grants.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas has invested $4 billion in the fight against one of the world\u2019s greatest public health challenges,\u201d said CPRIT CEO Kristen Doyle, herself a cancer survivor.<\/p>\n

Doyle said the support has helped the state lead the search for breakthrough treatments, develop new cancer-fighting drugs and devices, and save \u201ctens of thousands of lives through early cancer detection and prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dallas-Fort Worth CPRIT recipients and their respective categories include:<\/p>\n

Recruitment<\/p>\n

CPRIT awarded $2 million to UT Southwestern<\/strong> to recruit Elijah Mena<\/strong> to Dallas.<\/p>\n

Prevention<\/p>\n

UT Southwestern received two prevention grants totaling nearly $5 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keith E. Argenbright<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Fort Worth received $2.5 million for \u201cIncreasing Access to Cervical Cancer Screening and Patient Navigation in North Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Gerber<\/strong> UT Southwestern <\/strong>in Dallas received $2.4 million for \u201cIntegrated lung cancer screening and tobacco cessation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Research<\/p>\n

The research category drew 12 awards worth nearly $12 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saikat Mukhopadhyay<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $1.2 million for \u201cStudy of primary cilium maintenance as a dependency in SHH medulloblastoma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jie Zheng<\/strong> at UT Dallas<\/strong> in Richardson received $900,000 for \u201cHigh-contrast fluorescence imaging of non-enhancing brain metastases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Payal Kapur<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $1 million for \u201cAdvancing Clinical Decision-Making through Machine Learning on Underutilized Data.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tao Yue<\/strong> at UT Southwestern in Dallas<\/strong> received $900,000 for \u201cOvercoming Immunotherapy Resistance for the Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michalis Agathocleous<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $900,000 for \u201cMechanisms of blood cancer suppression by ascorbate.\u201d<\/p>\n

YI LI<\/strong> at UT Dallas<\/strong> in Richardson received $899,216 for \u201cAntisense Oligonucleotide Targeting Strategies for NAB2-STAT6 Solitary Fibrous Tumors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuoqi Wu<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $1.2 million for \u201cTarget the Redox Sensing Pathway to Enhance Anti-Tumor T-cell Immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deepak Nijhawan<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $898,004 for \u201cDevelopment of tumor activated IMPDH inhibitors to treat glioblastoma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zhenyu Zhong<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $900,000 for \u201cSympathetic Innervation Controls the Development of Obesity-Associated Liver Cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gerta Hoxhaj<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $900,000 for \u201cDecoding Compartmentalized Redox Metabolism in Melanoma Metastasis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kathryn O\u2019Donnell<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $900,000 for \u201cOncogenic activity and therapeutic targeting of serine protease TMPRSS11B in lung cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Gerber<\/strong> at UT Southwestern<\/strong> in Dallas received $894,790 for \u201cMechanisms and treatment of immunotherapy toxicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statewide funding round approved 73 grants and pushed CPRIT\u2019s 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

\u201cEvery Texan should know this effort matters, and we\u2019re not finished yet,\u201d Doyle said. \u201cTogether, we will conquer cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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