Winship Invest$ names prostate cancer pilot grant awardees

Thanks to generous gifts from the Champions Golf Association of Dunwoody Country Club and the Club’s annual John H. Kauffman Fundraiser, Winship is pleased to award seven prostate cancer research grants through the Winship Invest$ peer-reviewed pilot funding program.

The Winship prostate cancer pilot grants are designed to enhance the development of robust prostate cancer research at Winship and fund innovative proposals that address basic or translational research, investigator initiated clinical trials, health disparities, imaging, and survivorship or quality of life.

Net proceeds from the 2016 John H. Kauffman Fundraiser totaled $225,000. This was matched dollar for dollar by Winship’s own fundraising efforts, bringing last year's grand total to $450,000.

Winship investigators who received prostate cancer pilot funding in the current Winship Invest$ grant cycle are:

1. Jessica Alvarez, PhD, RD
   Assistant Professor of Endocrinology
   Emory University School of Medicine
   Genistein to prevent cardiometabolic dysfunction in patients undergoing androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer: a pilot and feasibility study

2. Rebecca Arnold, PhD, MS
   Associate Professor of Urology
   Emory University School of Medicine
   The Use of Mitochondria Nucleotides to Detect and/or Distinguish Indolent and Aggressive Prostate Cancer

3. Mehmet Bilen, MD
   Assistant Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology
   Emory University School of Medicine
   Ephraim Parent, MD, PhD
   Assistant Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
   Emory University School of Medicine
   Molecular Imaging with Ga-68 DOTATTE PET to Investigate Neuroendocrine Differentiation in Prostate Cancer Patients

4. Inyeong Choi, PhD
   Associate Professor of Physiology
   Emory University School of Medicine
   Effects of abnormal pH microenvironments on prostate cancer cell growth and motility

5. Carlos Moreno, PhD
   Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
   Emory University School of Medicine
   Combination Therapies to Prevent Resistance to Androgen Deprivation Therapy in Prostate Cancer

6. Sherif Nour, MD
   Associate Professor of Radiology
   Emory University School of Medicine
   Role of interventional MRI in management of prostate cancer

7. Mark Rapaport, MD
   Reunette W. Harris Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
   Emory University School of Medicine
   Efficacy of Message for the Treatment of Cancer-Related Fatigue (CRF) in Prostate Cancer Survivors