Career Development Program

Director Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, FACP
Co-Directors Eileen Dolan, PhD & Maryellen Giger, PhD

The Career Development Program (CDP) will be used to support early careers of the most promising junior investigators, and to recruit new senior investigators into translational breast cancer research. The program will provide tightly structured, multidisciplinary mentoring for junior faculty with great potential of developing independent programs in translational breast cancer research; however, exceptional senior faculty who demonstrate strong interest in developing such programs may also be eligible. Investigators may come from clinical or basic science backgrounds, provided that their research aims are translational in nature.

Current Awardees 2009-2010

Rong Stephanie Huang, PhD
Utility of Patient Lymphocytes in Discovery of Pharmacogenetic Markers

Emil Sidky, PhD
Dedicated Image-Reconstruction Algorithms for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis

Past Awardees 2008-2009

Husain Sattar, MD
Relationship of Polycomb Dependent Epigenetic Silencing and Breast Cancer

Past Awardees 2007-2008

Hania Al-Hallaq, PhD
Can Functional BOLD Imaging Increase the Specificity of Breast MRI Screening?

Patrick La Riviere, PhD
Molecular Probes and System Development for Optoacoustic Imaging of Proteases in Breast Cancer

Andy Minn, MD, PhD
Developing Predictive Assays and Targeted Therapy for Breast Cancer Based on Experimental Models of Malignant Progression