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Kris Cameron Wood

Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

Selected Grants


Duke Research Training Program in Surgical Oncology

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

The Duke Preparing Research scholars In bioMEdical sciences (PRIME): Cancer Research Program

ResearchPreceptor · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2023 - 2028

Medical Scientist Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2022 - 2027

University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1994 - 2027

Pharmacological activation of a newly discovered KEAP1-ATF4-CHOP axis to select against targeted therapy resistance in NSCLC

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2024 - 2027

Chromosomal Instability and 17p Loss Sensitize Cancer Cells to NDE1 Depletion

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2027

Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health - BIRCWH

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2027

Mechanisms of Macrophage-Mediated Immune Evasion in Residual Tumors

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2027

Otolaryngology Surgeon- Scientist career Path (OSSP) program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders · 2022 - 2027

Wnt signaling in obesity-associated colorectal cancer

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2022 - 2027

Mechanism-based targeting of unique survival signaling in residual tumors

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027

Lineage-specific signaling and targeting of PI3K gamma in myeloid malignancies

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027

Duke ACS Institutional Research Grant

ResearchSignificant Contributor · Awarded by American Cancer Society, Inc. · 2024 - 2026

Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026

Duke Center for Advancement of Child Health (CAtCH).

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026

Dissecting the evolutionary landscape of treatment resistance in rectal cancer using patient-derived models.

ResearchMentor · Awarded by American Gastroenterological Association · 2022 - 2025

Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Genetic and Genomics Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Investigating the Impact of ABL Kinase Signaling on Epigenetic Reprogramming in Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer

FellowshipCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2025

NGF recruits nerve fibers to reprogram an immunosuppressive microenvironment in melanoma

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Synthetic lethality by targeting the core senescent mechanism in lung cancer.

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Institutional Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 2018 - 2025

The mechanical role of the glycocalyx in cancer cell adhesion

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2024

Exploitation of XLF signaling and the DNA Damage Response as a novel therapeutic strategy in cholangiocarcinoma

ResearchMentor · Awarded by American College of Surgeons · 2021 - 2024

Evaluation of voltage-gated calcium ion channels as a therapeutic target in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2024

Improving Therapeutic Efficacy and Durability in FGFR2 Fusion Positive Cholangiocarcinoma

ResearchMentor · Awarded by The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation · 2022 - 2024

HOXB13 as a therapeutic target in prostate cancer

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Prostate Cancer Foundation · 2020 - 2024

Exploiting targeted therapy-induced ATM dependence in residual lung tumors

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2021 - 2023

Defining the Mechanistic Determinants of Response to Selective Electron Transport Chain Inhibition in Cancer

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2023

Identification and Characterization of Novel Cis-Regulatory Elements Controlling PTEN Expression

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2022

Uncovering actionable signaling pathways required for solid tumor brain metastasis

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2022

Targeting tumor-specific apoptosis regulation in advanced ER+ breast cancer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2019 - 2022

Selectively targeting apoptosis in PIK3CA mutant colorectal cancers

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2022

Medical Scientist Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1997 - 2022

Computational Structure-Based Protein Design Non-competing Renewal (Yr. 12)

ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2022

Determining the Sub-Cellular Organelles that Link Lipid Signaling and Epigenetics

ResearchSignificant Contributor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2021

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2021

Mechanisms of immune checkpoint resistance mediated by LKB1 tumor suppressor in lung cancer

ResearchMentor · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2019 - 2021

Strategies to overcome immunotherapy resistance in LKB1 and KEAP/NRF2 mutated NSCLC: modulating ferroptosis to restore immune sensitivity

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer · 2020 - 2021

Decoding human genetic variation by functional dissection of beta2-adrenergic receptor signaling

ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2019 - 2021

Codon bias imposes a targetable limitation on KRAS-driven therapeutic resistance

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2021

Precision targeting of altered mitochondrial states in ovarian cancer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Inc. · 2015 - 2021

Identification and validation of the PAX3-FOXO1 protein interactome

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by St. Baldrick's Foundation · 2018 - 2020

Targeting the Hippo pathway in Ras-driven rhabdomyosarcoma

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by V Foundation for Cancer Research · 2016 - 2020

Genetics Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1979 - 2020

Organization and Function of Cellular Structure

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020

Pharmacological Sciences Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2020

Evaluating small molecules that potentiate anti-tumor immunity

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Tavros Therapeutics · 2020 - 2020

Topological Methods for Morphology: Classifying Shape and Function via Dictionary Learning

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Columbia University · 2016 - 2020

Single cell functional dissection of tumor microenviornment-driven drug resistance

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2020

Pharmacology Industry Internships for Ph.D. Students

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 2017 - 2019

Targeting differential apoptosis regulation in triple negative breast cancer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2016 - 2019

Identification of synthetic lethal interactors in pancreatic cancer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2015 - 2019

Exploring BCL-XL addiction in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2019

RalA signal transduction

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2019

Copy Number Alterations in Low Mutation Cancer

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2019

Exploiting collateral sensitivity to target kinase inhibitor-resistant lung cancers

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2017 - 2018

Unmasking targetable dependencies in cancer with intrinsic or acquired resistance to anti-cancer therapies

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2018

Integration of signaling and metabolic pathways in the regulation of EMT

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by US-Israel Binational Science Foundation · 2016 - 2018

Profiling Gene Interactions in the Human Kinome

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2018

Targeting undruggable oncogenes through the epigenome

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Element Genomics, Inc. · 2017 - 2018

Designing durable apoptosis-targeting therapies for acute myeloid leukemia

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018

Mapping the landscape of drug sensitizers in human cancers

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2017

Genomic and Computational Approaches for Development of Novel Anticancer Therapies

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Schlumberger Foundation · 2015 - 2017

Systematic design of CDK4/6 inhibitor-based combination therapies

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by G1 Therapeutics Inc. · 2015 - 2016

A Platform for Real-time Drug Profiling of Patient-Derived Melanomas

FellowshipCo-Sponsor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2016

Cancer Biology Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 1993 - 2016

Systematic dissection of the breast cancer microenvironment using the MicroSCALE Toolkit

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by V Foundation for Cancer Research · 2013 - 2015

External Relationships


  • Celldom, Inc.
  • Decrypt Bio
  • Guidepoint Global
  • Retroviral Therapeutics
  • Simple Therapeutics
  • Stelexis Therapeutics
  • Tavros Therapeutics

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