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Goal: Identify optimal culture conditions for FLC organoidsPrincipal Investigator: Jian Liu, PhD Grant length: One year Study overview: Scientific investigators often use cultures, dishes containing tumor cells, to test candidate treatments for a disease. The type of cultures that most accurately reflect the properties of cells as if they were inside the body are “organoids”, …
Goal: Validating the RNA signature, expression and function in FLCPrincipal Investigator: Praveen Sethupathy, PhD Grant length: Two years Study overview: In past work at UNC, a survey of numerous drugs under consideration for FLC use proved non-effective or minimally effective in limiting the growth of the first FLC tumor model. This indicated that completely new …
Goals: Perform molecular analysis for FLC Principal Investigators: W. David Hankins, MD Grant length: One year Study overview: In addition to coordinating ICARE’s fibrolamellar exploration efforts (described separately) during FCF’s one-year partnership with ICARE, Dr. Hankins’ lab received a “Freedom of Pursuit” unrestricted grant, intended to fund bioinformatics and molecular (DNA, RNA and Protein) analyses …
Goals: Identify and launch initial fibrolamellar carcinoma research efforts Principal Investigators: W. David Hankins, MD Grant length: Two years Study overview: The International Cancer Alliance for Research and Education (ICARE) focuses its programs on building and funding local and international medical academic research teams (I-TEAMS) that identify, initiate and fund cutting-edge research projects to support …
Goal: Understand the developmental biology of fibrolamellar carcinomaPrincipal Investigator: Lola Reid, PhD Grant length: One year Study overview: Based on extensive work that Dr. Lola Reid’s Laboratory had already performed on normal liver cells and other forms of liver cancer, the goal of the effort was to attempt to define the development biology stage and …
Goal: Support series of high priority FLC investigations Principal Investigator: Sandy Simon, PhD Grant length: One year Study background: In previous work (including the initiatives funded in 2010 and 2011), the study team identified an increase of a patient’s antibodies, in particular the antibody known as IgG (immunoglobin G), in fibrolamellar, sarcomas, and a number …
Goal: Conduct genomic-based analysis of FLC patients Principal Investigator: Ron DeMatteo, MD Grant length: Two years Study background and overview: At the time of this effort, little was known about the exact mutations driving fibrolamellar carcinoma. Published research on the genomic alterations in FLC was scarce and limited to small studies, with the largest comprised …
Goals: Investigate the potential of AURKA inhibitors for FLC treatment Principal Investigators: John Gordan, MD, PhD (UCSF) and Nabeel Bardeesy, PhD (MGH) Grant length: Two years Study overview: Even though the DNAJB1-PRKACA gene fusion is sufficient to trigger fibrolamellar liver cancer (FLC), no treatments directed at this target are clinically available. Most FLC patients receive …
Goal: Understand growth mechanisms and identify potential therapeutic targets Principal Investigator: Raymond Yeung, MD, Professor of Surgery Grant length: Two years Study overview: Fibrolamellar cancer (FLC) is one of the most lethal form of liver cancer in adolescents and young adults. Currently, there is no effective therapy for these patients besides surgery. Armed with a …