2025 Research Grants
We are proud to announce that Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation’s Medical Advisory Board recently approved the funding for 8 new grants of $225,000 each, totaling $1.8 million! We are delighted to welcome these brilliant investigators to our Gabrielle’s Angels family!
DR. URVI SHAH, MD
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
TITLE OF PROPOSAL: A Decentralized Trial of a High-Fiber Plant-Based Dietary Intervention in Clonal Hematopoiesis
DR. JONAS SCHLUTER, PHD
NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
TITLE OF PROPOSAL: Leveraging the gut microbiome in lymphoma CAR T-cell therapy
DR. AARON VINY, MD, MS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
TITLE OF PROPOSAL: Investigating chromatin biomarkers for therapeutic sensitivity to Menin inhibition in myeloid malignancies
DR. TIMOUR BALSAN, PHD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
TITLE OF PROPOSAL: Leveraging comparative oncogenomics to nominate therapeutic targets for hypodiploid B-ALL.
FRANCO IZZO, PHD
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
TITLE OF PROPOSAL: Clonal Evolution and Epigenetic Plasticity drive Resistance to Hypomethylating Agents in Myelodysplastic Syndrome
DR. TANYA SHREE, MD, PHD
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
TITLE OF PROPOSAL: Targeting T regulatory type 1 cells for cancer immunotherapy
PETER MILLER, MD, PHD
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER
TITLE OF PROPOSAL: Enhancing Menin Inhibition in Acute Leukemia by Activating p53
DR. MIRIAM KIM, MD
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST. LOUIS
TITLE OF PROPOSAL: Interrogating the contribution of lymphodepletion to effective CAR T cell therapy