2005 Purchase of laboratory equipment to complete
research labs at the Arizona Cancer Center Research Pavilion at
Scottsdale Healthcare. Purchased a high-density, ultra-sound machine
for early breast cancer detection.
2004 New Technology Fund - Gel
Imager and Mass Spectrometer; Research and Development Fund - Bridge
Funds for researchers; Patient Support Fund - Social work.
2003 Expansion
of Cervical Cancer Prevention Projects; Developmental regulation of
the cell cycle; DNA replication; Drosophila as a cancer model;
Understanding factors influencing the transformation of healthy
breast cells into cancer cells capable of metastasis; Studies on the
impact of chemotherapy on cognitive function; The study of
epigenetic development and cancer; Blood test research for cancer
risk; Support for a social worker.
2002 Support
for the Breast Cancer Endowed Chair; Support for the Arizona Cancer
Center’s Clinical trials program at the Virginia G. Piper Center in
Scottsdale; Support for New Therapeutics Research, Ovarian
Cancer Research and Immunotherapy Research programs.
2001
Purchase of a Confocal Microscope for Molecular Oncology
Research; Support for Ovarian Cancer Research and Prostate Cancer
Research; Support for Genetic Risk Assessment Research at the
Virginia G. Piper Center in Scottsdale.
2000
Laboratory equipment; Research in molecular genetics; Endowment
funding.
1999 Laboratory
equipment for pediatric oncology research; Development of
anticancer vaccines for neuroblastoma and other pediatric
cancers; Quantitative molecular imaging microscope; Laser
dissecting microscope; Support for a laboratory technician
conducting research on antiangiogenic therapies and development of
vaccines against breast cancer antigens.
1998 Funded a
laboratory for microarray genetic cancer research.
1996/1997 Equipment for new breast
cancer research laboratory.
1995 Reversal of multidrug resistance; Proliferation of human
tumor cells as related to stress; Protein kinas gene complex in
melanoma development.
1994 New
breast cancer research laboratory in the 1994 Center’s expansion
project (the Sydney E. Salmon, M.D. Building).
1993 Apoptosis
and the malignant behavior of breast cancer cells.
1992 Molecular
analysis of drug resistance in lymphoma; Studies of myelodysplastic
syndrome as a precusor to acute leukemia; Mechanisms of radiation
therapy resistance in glioblastomas.
1991 Assessment
of biological activities of tumor suppressor biomarkers for cervical
disease.
1990 Mechanisms
of acquired drug resistance; Radioactive peptide-directed therapy
in lymphoma; Generation of cytotonic T-cells; Detection and
removal of disseminated breast cancer cells; Three-dimensional
structure of genes in diploid nuclei.
1989 Active
specific immunotherapy; A new anticancer vaccine.
1988 Early
detection of metastatic human breast tumor cells.
1986/1987 Special
procedures room in the Levy Building at the Arizona Cancer Center.
