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V Foundation for Cancer Research

Shiri Gur-Cohen, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine

UCSD

About the Award

The V Scholar Grant is a three year grant of $200,000 per year to young tenure track faculty early in their cancer research careers to fund fundamental or translational research projects.

Celebrated Work

Her research proposal, "Decoding Stem Cell-Niche Dependencies in Driving Tumor Evolution and Therapy Resistance" was approved for 3 years of funding totalling $600,000.    

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