Alliance Cancer Control Program Pilot Project Award

The Alliance Cancer Control Program will not offer the Pilot Project Award this year. This may be offered in future years based on the availability of funding to support this application. However, all investigators are encouraged to apply for funding through the Alliance Special Projects Allocation mechanism for consideration, if your research addresses high-priority research areas. Learn more about this special project allocation here.

Questions about the award should be addressed to Jill Oliveri, DrPH, at jill.oliveri@osumc.edu or 614-293-8174.

Here's a list of past award recipients.
Year 8 | Pilot Project Award Recipient

• Sagar Sardesai, MD; Jennifer Vaughn, MD; and Maryam Lustberg, MD (The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center)
  "Episodic Future Thinking: A Behavioral Intervention to Promote Weight Loss in Breast Cancer Survivors"

Year 7 | Pilot Project Award Recipient

• Kevin Cassel, DrPH, MPH (Hawaii Minority/Underserved NCORP)
  "Improving Quality of Life for Colon Cancer Patients and Their Caregivers"

Year 6 | Pilot Project Award Recipients

• Audrey Calderwood, MD, MS (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center)
  "Non-invasive Stool Testing (FIT) for Surveillance of Colonic Neoplasia in Older Adults”
• Tanya M. Wildes, MD, MSCI (Washington University School of Medicine)
  ”Adherence to Lenalidomide in Older Adults with Multiple Myeloma”

Year 5 | Pilot Project Award Recipients

• Rachel Freedman, MD (Dana-Farber)
  “‘ADVANCE’ (A Pilot Trial) ADjuVANt Chemotherapy in the Elderly: Developing and Evaluating Lower-Toxicity Chemotherapy Options for Older Patients with Breast Cancer”
• Nathan Staff, MD and Charles Loprinzi, MD (Mayo Clinic)
  ”A Pilot Trial of Fingolimod for Prevention or Treatment of Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy”
• Lisa Yee, MD (City of Hope) and Maryam Lustberg, MD (Ohio State)
  “Curcumin for Breast Cancer Survivors with Aromatase Inhibitor-induced Joint Arthropathy: A Randomized Double-blinded Controlled Pilot Study”

Year 4 | Pilot Project Award Recipients

• Kathleen Lyons, ScD, Andrew Ray, PhD and David Finley, MD (Norris Cotton Cancer Center)
  "A remotely supervised exercise program for lung cancer patients undergoing chemoradiation"
• Allison Quick, MD and Maryam Lustberg, MD (Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center)
  "Fractional CO2 laser therapy for survivors of gynecologic malignancies"

Year 3 | Pilot Project Award Recipients

• Aminah Jatoi, MD (Mayo Clinic)
  "Lipids to prevent carboplatin hypersensitivity reactions"
• Rudolph Navari, MD, PhD (Northern Indiana Oncology Associates)
  "Olanzapine for the treatment of chronic nausea and/or vomiting, unrelated to chemotherapy or radiation, in advanced cancer patients: A pilot, dose-finding trial"
• Nitin Pagedar, MD and Richard Hoffman, MD (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine)
  "Supporting head and neck cancer survivors in making shared decisions for lung cancer screening"

Year 2 | Pilot Project Award Recipient

• William Wood, MD, MPH (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  ”Assessing physical fitness in cancer patients with cardiopulmonary exercise testing and wearable data generation: An Alliance pilot study proposal”

Year 1 | Pilot Project Award Recipients

• Arti Gaur, PhD and Konstantin Dragnev, MD (Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center)
  "MicroRNAs as biomarkers of treatment efficacy and toxicity in gioblastoma patients"
• Aminah Jatoi, MD (Mayo Clinic) and Kendrith Rowland, MD (Carle Clinic)
  "Curcumin + piperine for ureteral stent-induced symptoms in older cancer patients:  A pilot study to derive a safe, optimal biological dose"
• Hyung Kim, MD (Cedars Sinai Medical Center)
  "Cholesterol lowering intervention for prostate cancer active surveillance"