Abstract

The goal of the Prostate Cancer Program is to reduce the burden of prostate cancer through dedicated and collaborative research.
The Specific Aims for the next project period are to 1) Identify molecular mechanisms driving the development and progression of prostate cancer and their interaction with germline genetic variations and environmental factors; 2) Identify critical functions of androgen receptor in prostate cancer development and progression and develop therapies that more effectively target this pathway while minimizing side effects; and 3) Improve prostate cancer treatment through better use of individual clinical and molecular characteristics to select or refine treatment and by the introduction of genetically based and other novel therapeutic strategies. The program has 87 members, representing seven DF/HCC institutions and 13 academic departments. In 2014 peer-reviewed grant funding attributed to the Program was $7 million in total costs from the NCI and $3.8 million from other sponsors. During the current funding period, Prostate Cancer Program members published 1,860 cancer-relevant papers. Of these 33% were inter-institutional, 26% were intra-programmatic, and 36% were inter-programmatic collaborations between two or more DF/HCC members. Overall, when counted once, 27% of DF/HCC publications were inter-programmatic collaborations.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Center Core Grants (P30)
Project #
3P30CA006516-55S4
Application #
10063137
Study Section
Subcommittee I - Transistion to Independence (NCI)
Program Officer
Ptak, Krzysztof
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2019-12-01
Budget End
2020-11-30
Support Year
55
Fiscal Year
2020
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
076580745
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02215

  Publications

Mohr, Stephanie E; Rudd, Kirstin; Hu, Yanhui et al. (2018) Zinc Detoxification: A Functional Genomics and Transcriptomics Analysis in Drosophila melanogaster Cultured Cells. G3 (Bethesda) 8:631-641
Odiaka, Emeka; Lounsbury, David W; Jalloh, Mohamed et al. (2018) Effective Project Management of a Pan-African Cancer Research Network: Men of African Descent and Carcinoma of the Prostate (MADCaP). J Glob Oncol :1-12
Mills, Evanna L; Pierce, Kerry A; Jedrychowski, Mark P et al. (2018) Accumulation of succinate controls activation of adipose tissue thermogenesis. Nature 560:102-106
Oser, Matthew G; Fonseca, Raquel; Chakraborty, Abhishek A et al. (2018) Cells Lacking the RB1 Tumor Suppressor Gene are Hyperdependent on Aurora B Kinase for Survival. Cancer Discov :
Choudhury, Atish D; Gray, Kathryn P; Supko, Jeffrey G et al. (2018) A dose finding clinical trial of cabozantinib (XL184) administered in combination with abiraterone acetate in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Prostate :
Watson, Noreen L; Mull, Kristin E; Heffner, Jaimee L et al. (2018) Participant Recruitment and Retention in Remote eHealth Intervention Trials: Methods and Lessons Learned From a Large Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Web-Based Smoking Interventions. J Med Internet Res 20:e10351
Pednekar, M S; Nagler, E M; Gupta, P C et al. (2018) Scaling up a tobacco control intervention in low resource settings: a case example for school teachers in India. Health Educ Res 33:218-231
Braun, Danielle; Yang, Jiabei; Griffin, Molly et al. (2018) A Clinical Decision Support Tool to Predict Cancer Risk for Commonly Tested Cancer-Related Germline Mutations. J Genet Couns 27:1187-1199
Santana-Codina, Naiara; Roeth, Anjali A; Zhang, Yi et al. (2018) Oncogenic KRAS supports pancreatic cancer through regulation of nucleotide synthesis. Nat Commun 9:4945
Cox, Andrew G; Tsomides, Allison; Yimlamai, Dean et al. (2018) Yap regulates glucose utilization and sustains nucleotide synthesis to enable organ growth. EMBO J 37:

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