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Awards and Grants
Supporting Advanced Research in Urology
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2002 |
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- The prostate cancer program at UCLA is designated a Specialized Program
of Research Excellence (SPORE) by the National Cancer Institute; $11.5
million grant awarded to improve prevention, detection and treatment
- The National Cancer Institute awards a $6 million grant to UCLA to
identify bladder cancer biomarkers that may enable researchers to develop
a test similar to the PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) test for prostate
cancer, over the next 5 years
- Dr. Charles Sawyers wins the Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist
Award, a $1.5 million award that will support further research into
a gene mutation called PTEN present in men with prostate cancer
- Dr. Larissa V. Rodriguez receives a two-year Biostar award for $260,000
for her work in tissue engineering of the female genitourinary tract
- The National Institutes of Health awards $6.9 million to researchers
from UCLA, RAND and the Veteran’s Administration for a five-year
project, Urologic Diseases in America. Drs. Christopher Saigal and Mark
Litwin head the project.
- Dr. Larissa V. Rodriguez receives one of the nation's first Jahnigen Career Development Scholar Awards -- a new award program that will focus on the care of older people in surgical and related specialties. Rodriguez received a two-year, $200,000 award for her research using tissue-engineering techniques to discover cures for stress urinary incontinence in the elderly population.
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2001 |
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- California Awards UCLA $50 Million to Administer IMPACT, a Statewide
Prostate Cancer Treatment Program targeting uninsured men
- The National Institutes of Health awards a $6 million grant to the UCLA Bio-Engineering Research Partnership, spearheaded by Principal Investigator Bernard Churchill, M.D., to develop a uropathogen detection system that would identify uropathogens quickly and enable point-of-care diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections
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2000 |
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- Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center win $700,000 from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to investigate the causes of and treatments for advanced prostate cancer.
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1999 |
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- The National Cancer Institute awards a team of UCLA researchers $3 million over five years from to explore possible treatments for prostate cancer and develop new research models to advance studies of the disease.
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1998 |
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- The Cancer Research Institute awards $300,000 to Drs. Owen Witte and Robert Reiter for their collaboration on Prostate Stem Cell Antigens
- Grant that led to Uropathogen Detection Using DNA Biosensors project
