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2024

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24)

Video Highlights

• KCRP Video Highlights

News:

• UNE received $100,000 Department of Defense grant to combat rare kidney cancer (external link)
  University of New England, April 26, 2024
• Dense tumor extracellular matrix impedes immunotherapy infiltration (external link)
  Fred Hutch Cancer Center, March 15, 2024

2023

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23)

Research Highlights:

• Exploration of Iron Dependent Cell Death (Ferroptosis): A Novel Treatment Option for Patients with Clear Cell Kidney Cancer
• A Novel Mechanism of Pathogenesis for Renal Medullary Carcinoma

Video Highlights

• KCRP Video Highlights

2022

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22)
March 7, 2022

Research Highlights:

• The Academy of Kidney Cancer Investigators – Getting to Know Class 1 and 2

News:

• Cell competition may explain cancer relapses, research suggests (external link)
  UT Southwestern, November 16, 2022

2021

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21)

Research Highlights:

• Therapeutic Targeting of HHLA2/KIR3DL3 Axis as a Novel Immune Checkpoint Pathway in Renal Cancer
• Stromal β-catenin Activation Contributes to Abnormal Kidney Formation in Mice that Mimics Human Wilms Tumor
• Metabolic Reprogramming of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Mediated by Tobacco Smoke
• Profilin 1 Promotes Aggressiveness of ccRCC and Provides a Potential New Therapeutic Target

News:

• Fox Chase Researchers Find Novel Histone-Dependent PARP-1 Inhibitors More Effective at Treating Prostate and Renal Cancers (external link)
  FirstWord Pharma, January 12, 2021

2020

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20)

Research Highlights:

• Harnessing Predictive Markers of Response to Antiangiogenic Therapy: Two Approaches to Optimizing Treatment for Metastatic Renal Carcinoma

2019

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19)
  March 27, 2019

2018

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18)
  May 7, 2018

2017

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2017
  September 6, 2017

News:

• CDMRP Kidney Cancer Research Program (external link)
  Oncology Tube, December 7, 2017
• Remembering Fred Atkin (external link)
  Action to Cure Kidney Cancer, November 29, 2017
• Summary of FISCAL YEAR 2017 Stakeholders Meeting

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