• 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.

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