2023 IDP Foundation Research Innovation Challenge Award Recipients Announced

The Lurie Cancer Center is pleased to announce IDP Research Innovation Challenge Award recipients for 2023.

Funded by a generous donation from the IDP Foundation (Innovation/Development/Progress), these awards will support highly innovative, team-driven, cancer research projects that are translational in nature, cross-disciplinary, and collaborative in design and conduct.

It is anticipated that these awards, applying concepts and/or methodologies from diverse disciplines to significant problems in cancer biology or oncology, will support projects that are likely to lead to the submission of a multi-PI application to the NCI.

Congratulations to this year’s award recipients: 

“Mechanistically elucidating circadian disruption
in lung cancer”

Co-Principal Investigators:

Lillian Eichner, PhD
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Clara Peek, PhD
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Medicine (Endocrinology)

“Selecting Antigen Specific T cells for Cancer Therapy
Using Mitochondrial Membrane Potential”

Co-Principal Investigators:

Seth Pollack, MD
Medicine (Hematology and Oncology)

Navdeep Chandel, PhD
Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

“Ancestry and race in gynecologic cancers”

Co-Principal Investigators:

Melissa Simon, MD
Obstetrics and Gynecology (General Obstetrics and Gynecology)/Preventive Medicine and Medical Social Sciences

Minoli Perera, PharmD, PhD
Pharmacology

Julie Kim, PhD
Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Science in Medicine)

Laimonis Laimins, PhD
Microbiology-Immunology

Francesca Duncan, PhD
Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Science in Medicine)