Targeting Androgen Receptor Signaling in Prostate Cancer in Men with African Ancestry
Changmeng Cai (UMass Boston), Steven Balk (DFCI)
Testing Home-Based Exercise Strategies to Improve Exercise Participation and Cardiovascular Health in Underserved Minority Patients with Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy – THRIVE
Huimin Yan (UMass Boston), Christina Dieli-Conwright (DFCI)
Impact of Changing Restaurant Advertising on Weight Gain and Disparities
Keren Horn, Dania Francis (UMass Boston), Briana Stephenson, Sara Bleich (DFCI)
High Frequency of CHD1 Loss in BRCA2- Deficient African American Prostate Tumors Drives Tumor Formation by Suppressing Replication Stress
Shailja Pathania (UMass Boston), Zoltan Szallasi (DFCI)
The Impact of Individual and Neighboring SES on Smoking Cessation Intervention Among Smokers Undergoing Lung Cancer Screening
Jaqueline Avila (UMass Boston), Nancy Rigotti (DFCI)
Biomechanical and Biomolecular Characterization of Large Extracellular Vesicles to Predict Treatment Responses for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Joanna Dahl (UMass Boston), Hyungsoon Im (DFCI)
Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 Communications on Cancer Control and Prevention with a Particular Focus on Low Socioeconomic and Minority Population Groups
Jessie Quintero Johnson (UMass Boston), Mesfin Bekalu (DFCI)
Rapid Cycle Quality Improvement (RCQI) Approaches for Developing the Capacity of Community-Based Organizations to Address COVID-19 and Cancer Disparities in Latinx Communities
Lorna Rivera (UMass Boston), Jarvis Chen (DFCI)
Uncovering the Health Care Experience of Brazilian Immigrant Cancer Patients in Massachusetts
Eduardo Siqueira (UMass Boston), Anna Revette (DFCI)
Development of Selective PARP2 Inhibitors for Prostate Cancer Treatment
Wei Zhang (UMass Boston), Li Jia (DFCI)
Alleviating Anxiety Among Patients Newly Diagnosed with Cancer
Lizabeth Roemer (UMass Boston), Oreofe Odejide (DFCI)
New Measures and Professional Development Opportunities to Promote Evidence-Based Cancer Prevention and Control in Underserved Communities
Arthur Eisenkraft (UMass Boston), Shoba Ramanadhan (DFCI)
Sitting Less, Moving More: Designing a Digital Health Intervention for Black and African American Women Breast Cancer Survivors and their at-risk Relatives
Julie Wright (UMass Boston), Catherine Marinac (DFCI)
Development of Synergistic Light-activated and Anti-microRNA Combination Therapies for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Jonathan Celli (UMass Boston), Frank Slack (DFCI)
Project SPRING: Smoking Protective and Risk factors in Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Groups (SPRING)
Suha Ballout (UMass Boston), Andy Tan (DFCI)
Environmental Carcinogens Drive Risk for Breast Cancer in BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: A Mechanistic and Epidemiology Study
Shailja Pathania (UMass Boston), Timothy Rebbeck (DFCI)
Development of Biodegradable Liquid Metal Nanocarriers as Potent Cancer Theranostic Agents
Michelle Foster (UMass Boston), Srivalleesha Mallidi (DFCI)
Evaluation of Novel Anti-micro-RNA and Photomedicine Therapeutic Combinations in Co-culture 3D Organoid Models of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Jonathan Celli (UMass Boston), Frank Slack (DFCI)
Validation of Urinary RNA Biomarkers Predictive for Renal Cell Carcinoma Diagnosis
Jill Macoska (UMass Boston), Manoj Bhasin (DFCI)
Women in Search of Empowerment (WiSE): Smoking Cessation for Women Living with HIV
Sun Kim (UMass Boston), Rosanna DeMarco (UMass Boston), Mary Cooley (DFCI)
EMPOWER: Understanding Barriers to Initiation and Adherence to Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy in Young Breast Cancer Survivors of Diverse Racial, Ethnic and Socio-Economic Backgrounds
Jessica Whiteley (UMass Boston), Shoshana Rosenberg (DFCI)
Advancing Disparities-Focused Cancer Genomics Research: Understanding the Role of Somatic Mutations in Prostate Cancer in African-Caribbean Men
Changmeng Cai (UMass Boston), Franklin Huang (DFCI), Alexandra Shields (DFCI)
The Use of Zebrafish Germ Cell Tumor Mutant to Identify Putative Genetic Mutation Drivers in Human Testicular Germ Cell Tumors
Kellee Siegfried-Harris (UMass Boston), Christopher Sweeney (DFCI), Eliezer Van Allen (DFCI)
Post-Transcriptional Regulation of the Tumor Suppressor Gene PTEN by Competing Endogenous RNAs
Rahul Kulkarni (UMass Boston), Kourosh Zarringhalam (UMass Boston), Pier Pandolfi (DFCI)
EL CENTRO: Engaging Latinos in the Center of Cancer Treatment Options
Ana Lindsay (UMass Boston), Andrea Enzinger (DFCI), Deborah Schrag (DFCI)
Assessing the Familial Financial Burden of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Randy Albelda (UMass Boston), Gregory Abel (DFCI)
A National Faith Community Atlas on End-of-Life Spiritual Care: Informing a Religious Community Educational Intervention to Address End-of-Life Cancer Disparities
Michael Balboni (DFCI), Tracy Balboni (DFCI), Amy Rex Smith (UMass Boston)
Integrated modeling of post-transcriptional regulatory networks of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN
Rahul Kulkarni (UMass Boston), Kourosh Zarringhalam (UMass Boston), Pier Paolo Pandolfi (BIDMC)
Synthesis and Screening of Chemical Libraries for Discovery of Novel Bromodomain Inhibitors
James Bradner (DFCI), Wei Zhang (UMass Boston)
Nursing Post-Doctoral Program in Cancer and Health Disparities
Pat Reid Ponte (DFCI), Laura L. Hayman (UMass Boston), Donna Berry (DFCI), Mary E. Cooley (UMass Boston)
Developing a Resiliency Program for Medical Interpreters in Cancer Care
Jan Mutchler (UMass Boston), Elyse Park (MGH)
Design and Optimization of Molecular Photoacoustic Contrast Agents (MPACs) for In Vivo Imaging of Breast Cancer Tumors
Chandra Yelleswarapu (UMass Boston), Jonathan Rochford (UMass Boston), Jen-Chieh Tseng (DFCI)
Latino End-of-Life Care: Patient, Provider, and Institutional Effects
Holly Prigerson (DFCI), Paul Maciejewski (BWH), Jan Mutchler (UMass Boston)
In Vivo Analysis of Signaling Dynamics in the Notch Interaction Network
Spyridon Artavanis-Tsakonas (HMS), Alexey Veraksa (UMass Boston)
Covalent Fluorescent Probes for Cancer Cell Detection
Nathanael Gray (DFCI), Priscilla Yang (HMS), Wei Zhang (UMass Boston)
Promoting Utilization of Cancer Early Detection Methods among Latinos in Church: A Faith-Based Approach
Jennifer Allen (DFCI), Maria Idalí Torres (UMass Boston)