2025 Caltech-City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative Grants

Pamela Bjorkman (BBE) & John Shively (CoH) - PET Imaging of antigens encoded by conventional versus novel mRNA vaccines

Tsui-Fen Chou (BBE) & Li Ling (CoH) - Targeting SAMHD1 to elicit anti-leukemia immunity

Tsui-Fen Chou (BBE) & Ravi Salgia (CoH) - Discovery and Clinical Validation of smORF-Encoded Microproteins as Predictive Biomarkers of KRAS Inhibitor Resistance

David Glover (BBE) & Andrea Bild (CoH) - Interfering with centrosome amplification checkpoints as a route towards breast cancer therapy

Rustem Ismagilov (CCE) & Kenya Honda (CoH) - Pilot investigations towards rational engineering of microbial modulation of Th17 responses

Ellen Rothenberg (BBE) & Marcel van den Brink (CoH) - Tuning LMO2 to boost thymic output and anti-tumor immunity

Timothy Shay (BBE) & Yanhong Shi (CoH) - Human-optimized AAVs to validate APOE gene therapy for Alzheimer's Disease

Lihong Wang (EAS) & William Tseng (CoH) - Characterization of Liposarcoma Enabled by Whole-Body-Scale Ultrasound CT

Kai Zinn (BBE) & Fouad Kandeel (CoH) - An Advanced Molecular Biosensing Framework for Detecting Low-Abundance Pathophysiological Proteins