Selected Grants
Targeting Undruggable Transcription Factor HoxB13 to Inhibit Prostate Cancer Metastasis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2029Elucidating alternative polyadenylation regulation during prostate cancer progression to castration-resistance
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029Targeting MED31-driven transcription recycling in lethal prostate cancer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2023 - 2028Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026Targeting oncogenomic function of N-Myc to inhibit neuroendocrine prostate cancer visceral metastasis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2023 - 2026Computational and Experimental Modeling of Alternative Polyadenylation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Irvine · 2022 - 2026Inhalable Cas13d-based nanotherapy for pan-coronavirus infection: Using SARS-CoV-2 Omicron as a model
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2024 - 2026Adjuvant Comparison for Peanut Allergy Immunotherapy
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2025Systems analysis of the prostate cancer epigenome
ResearchUnit Lead · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2020 - 2025Cas13d-based nanotherapy targeting undruggable transcription factor HoxB13 to inhibit prostate cancer metastasis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2023 - 2025Genetic and Genomics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Role of JMJD1A modifications in castration resistance of prostate cancer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Maryland, Baltimore · 2022 - 2025Exploiting Ferroptosis for the Treatment of RB1-Deficient Lethal Prostate Cancer
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2022 - 2024Targeting neuroendocrine prostate cancer by engineering 3' untranslated regions
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2020 - 2024Targeting the Oncogenomic Function of the E2F8 Transcription Factor in Lethal Cancer
ResearchMentor · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2022 - 2024Systems Analysis of Epigenomic Architecture in Cancer Progression (Outreach Core)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · 2019 - 2023Systems Analysis of Epigenomic Architecture in Cancer Progression (Project 2: Fine-scale nucleosome repositioning of enhancers for hormone-independent genomic function)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · 2017 - 2023FOXA2-targeted organ-selective nanotherapy for prostate cancer visceral metastasis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mike Slive Foundation · 2022 - 2022Role of oncogenic phosphorylated MED1 in aggressive prostate cancer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2022Systems Analysis of Epigenomic Architecture in Cancer Progression (Administrative Core)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · 2017 - 2022Novel genomic mechanism for ligand-dependent transcription by androgen receptor
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2022Targeting castration-resistant prostate cancer by engineering 3'UTR
ResearchMentor · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2020 - 2022Novel Tumor Suppressive Role of Phosphodiesterases in Prostate Cancer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ohio State University · 2017 - 2021Systems Analysis of Epigenomic Architecture in Cancer Progression (Carryover)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · 2020 - 2021Organization and Function of Cellular Structure
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020Population/single-cell profiling of chromatin accessibility for hormone-dependent cancers
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · 2018 - 2019External Relationships
- NIH, Society of Basic Urological Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Wayne State University , Serican Academy of Urology, Journal editorial board
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