Lab Funding
We deeply appreciate support for our research from the following agencies and foundations:
The Susan G. Komen Foundation has funded this research since I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1993. We have received three grants from the Komen Foundation. The first was a Postdoctoral Fellowship grant that funded the training and early career of Dr. Victoria Seewaldt. The second grant was to study the effects of vitamin A in regulating growth of breast cancer cells. The third grant is funding our breast pap smear (RPFNA) efforts.
The National Institute of Health has provided funding for the basic science that drives our marker studies. Currently we have funding from grants CA88799 and CA98441.
A partnership between National Institute of Heath, the Breast SPORE Program, and the AVON Foundation has provided funding to test for methylation changes in RPFNA in women who have a primary breast cancer.
The Department of Defense Breast Cancer Program has provided research funding to investigate how loss of vitamin A signaling might promote early breast cancer and to study other early events in breast cancer (BC971851 and BC010919).
The American Cancer Society provided research funding to investigate how the body acts to get rid of damaged cells.
The Mary Kay Ash Foundation has provided funding to help us develop the breast pap smear (RPFNA) and start to test prevention agents.
The V Foundation funded some of our early basic research on tamoxifen and gave us the start up money for our Breast Wellness Clinic.
