PELOTONIA awarded six, two-year grants to projects at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute.
Pelotonia is a fundraising bicycle tour established in 2009 to raise money for cancer research at Ohio State. In the past four years, 67 OSUCCC – James research teams have received Pelotonia Idea Grants. A total of $650,000 will be awarded in this latest round of grants, with $6.6 million in funding awarded since the program’s inception.
The 2014 Pelotonia Idea Grants funded the following projects: Identifying and Developing New Immunoagents for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy; Proteasomal Pathway Regulates PTEN Protein Degradation and Promotes Carcinogenesis; A Mass-Spectrometry Approach to Mapping Histone Modification Crosstalk; Develop IL-27 Based Combinational Immunotherapy of Cancer; Ceragenin-based Therapy for Multiple Myeloma; and Defining the Role of Autophagy in Anoikis Resistance and in Peritoneal Carcinomatosis/Sarcomatosis.
