Nine Winship investigators are the newest recipients of pilot grants through Winship Invest$, a peer-reviewed program designed to fund novel, innovative cancer research projects at Winship. Winship Invest$ is supported by philanthropic contributions as well as developmental funds from Winship's Cancer Center Support Grant (P30CA138292) awarded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
Winship Invest$ has two funding cycles every year. The most recent cycle focused on projects that address four strategic areas: (1) team science, (2) biomedical engineering, (3) cancer cell biology, and (4) cancer disease-specific research related to brain tumors, prostate cancer, or gastrointestinal cancers.
Winship investigators who received funding in the current Winship Invest$ grant cycle are:
- Improve Cancer Immunotherapy by Modulating PD-1-PD-L1 Catch Bonds
Cheng Zhu, PhD
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Tech and Emory University - Targeting Integrin Alpha-3 for Glioblastoma Therapy
Erwin Van Meir, PhD
Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery and Hematology and Medical Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine - Computational Analysis of Cell Migration Dynamics with Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy
Jun Kong, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Emory University School of Medicine
Adam Marcus, PhD
Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine - Targeting the Tumor Immune Microenvironment to Enhance Immunotherapy in Rb-silenced Pancreatic Cancer
Brian Olson, PhD
Instructor, Departments of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Urology, and Surgery
Emory University School of Medicine - A Novel Imaging Framework for Cardio-Pulmonary Toxicity Evaluation in Thoracic Radiotherapy
Richard Castillo, PhD, DABR
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
Krystal Archer-Arroyo, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Division of Emergency and Trauma Imaging
Emory University School of Medicine - Comprehensive Characterization of Lung Cancer Metastasis to Distant Organs in a Genetically Defined Mouse Model
Wei Zhou, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
Melissa Gilbert-Ross, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine