2018 Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Innovation Research Award Recipients
The Lurie Cancer Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Innovation Research Awards.
Funded by a generous donation from Liz and Eric Lefkofsky and the Lefkofsky Family Foundation, the awards were established to provide Lurie Cancer Center investigators with the resources to conduct highly innovative cancer-relevant pilot studies that can serve as foundations for larger, nationally funded studies.
Based on the outstanding progress made during her initial year of funding, one awardee from 2017 received funding to continue her project for a second year. Three additional investigators received 2018 Innovation Research Awards that will support new pilot projects.
New Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Scholars
Elucidating the Role of Protein Aggregation and Amyloidogenesis in BAF-linked Tumorigenesis
Liming Li, PhD Associate Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Feinberg School of Medicine
Marc Mendillo, PhDAssistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Feinberg School of Medicine
How Circulating Tumor Cells Usurp the Leukocyte Transmigration Mechanism
William A. Muller, MD, PhDProfessor
Pathology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Renewed Liz & Eric Lefkofsky Scholar
Surrounded by Bad Neighbors: Do Keratinocyte “Cancerization Fields” Promote Melanoma Development
Kathleen J. Green, PhDAssociate Director, Basic Sciences Research
Lurie Cancer Center
Joseph L. Mayberry, Sr. Professor of Pathology and Toxicology
Feinberg School of Medicine