Meet the 2020 Career Development Award and Postdoctoral Fellowship Grantees

The Lymphoma Research Foundation’s Clinical Investigator Career Development Award and Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants support junior faculty members and PhD and advanced fellows pursuing research in lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Projects awarded from this year’s class of CDA and Fellowship grant recipients include early clinical trials of novel therapies, investigations into the biology of Hodgkin lymphoma and aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas, and new mechanisms for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy.

XU CAO, PhD

City of Hope and Beckman Research Institute
Research Study: Rational combination of paclitaxel with CD47 blockades to eradicate non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Lymphoma Focus: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
General – Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas (no specific subtype)

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NATALIE GROVER, MD

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Study: CD30-Directed CAR-T Cells Co-Expressing CCR4 in Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma
Lymphoma Focus: Hodgkin Lymphoma, Classical Hodgkin lymphoma
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YONG GU LEE, PhD

The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Research Study: A novel chimeric antigen receptor T cell for the treatment of B-cell lymphomas
Lymphoma Focus: B-cell Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Mature B-cell neoplasms: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)
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ADAM LIN, MD, PhD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Research Study: Engineering CpG Deoxynucleotide-Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles for Enhanced Anti-Lymphoma Effects
Lymphoma Focus: B-cell Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
General: B-cell lymphomas

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RYAN LYNCH, MD

University of Washington
Research Study: Optimizing Checkpoint-Inhibitor Combinations in the Management of Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma
Lymphoma Focus: Hodgkin Lymphoma, Classical Hodgkin lymphoma
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ALEXIA MARTINEZ DE PAZ, PhD

Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Research Study: Signaling to Chromatin Pathways in Regulation of Germinal Center B Cell Differentiation and Lymphoma
Lymphoma Focus: B-cell Lymphoma Mature B-cell neoplasms: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), Follicular lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma
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LAURIANNE SCOURZIC, PhD

Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Research Study: Core stem-like properties and subpopulations of Germinal Center B-cells promoting lymphomagenesis
Lymphoma Focus: B-cell Lymphoma Mature B-cell neoplasms- Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), Follicular lymphoma
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PAOLO STRATI, MD

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Research Study: Targeting macrophages to mitigate CAR-T toxicity in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Lymphoma Focus: B-cell Lymphoma, Aggressive Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Mature B-cell neoplasms: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), High-grade B-cell lymphoma- with MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 rearrangements, Primary mediastinal (thymic) large B-cell lymphoma

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