What TBB Funds

What We Fund

In the last five years we’ve funded the following:

2022  $1,050,000

$50,000

Young Investigator Award – helping promising researchers at the beginning of their career

$150,000

Cancer Metabolomics Core Facility – supporting a system-based approach to help define complex interactions for diagnostic and therapeutic gain

$150,000

Ben May Department for Cancer Research – answering fundamental biological questions and finding applications for groundbreaking discoveries

$125,000

Translational Groups of Research Excellence (TGRE) – supporting multidisciplinary bench to bedside work

$100,000

Colorectal Cancer Immunotherapy – expanding existing work of an interdisciplinary team working on the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the US

$100,000

Improving Quality of Life and Outcomes for Head and Neck Cancer Patients – developing new treatment that maximizes treatment effectiveness while minimizing side effects

$100,000

Head and Neck Cancer Biomarker-driven HPV de-escalation therapy – working towards sparing patients from receiving unnecessary chemotherapies

$100,000

Identification of Solid Tumor Target for Women’s Cancer – developing immunotherapies for cancer patients

$100,000

Head and Neck Cancer ATRA enhances effect of radiotherapy and immunotherapy – supporting a clinical trial effort for head and neck cancer

$75,000

Community Impact – Cervical Cancer – working to reduce health disparities through HPV vaccination

2021$270,000 (limited fundraising activity due to Covid)

$100,000

Spotlight: Leveraging AI/Data Science to Understand, Diagnose, and Treat Cancer

$100,000

Spotlight: Tumor Biology – Metabolism

$70,000

Personalized Cancer Treatments

2020   $950,000

$150,000

Ben May Department for Cancer Research

$150,000

Team Science Grant – Addressing the cancer community’s most provocative questions

$100,000

Human Tissue Resource Center

$100,000

Spotlight: Leveraging AI/Data Science to understand, diagnose and treat cancer

$100,000

Spotlight: Tumor Biology – Modeling and understanding cancer as a complex disease

$100,000

Spotlight: Cancer Risk and Prevention – Adopting novel measures to reduce risk and prevent cancer

$80,000

Committee on Cancer Biology

$70,000

Personalized Cancer Treatments

$50,000

Funding Support for “Near the Payline” NCI Grant Applications

$50,000

Women’s Board Senior Scholar

2019   $1,030,000

$150,000

Ben May Department for Cancer Research

$100,000

Human Tissue Resource Center

$100,000

Spotlight: Risk Assessment and Prevention – Imaging technologies for early detection

$100,000

Spotlight: Tumor Biology and Innovative Treatment – Molecular drivers of tumor behavior

$100,000

Spotlight: Tumor Biology and Innovative Treatment – Translational research and precision genomics trials

$100,000

Spotlight: Tumor Biology and Innovative Treatment – Image guided therapy for cancer

$100,000

Spotlight: Survivorship – Value of Cancer Care: Lowering drug cost & side effects through reduced dosing approaches

$80,000

Committee on Cancer Biology

$70,000

Personalized Cancer Treatments

$50,000

Funding Support for “Near the Payline” NCI Grant Applications

$50,000

Women’s Board Senior Scholar

$30,000

High-Priority Collaborative Initiatives

2018  $1,150,000

$150,000

Team Science

$150,000

Janet D. Rowley Discovery Fund

$150,000

Ben May Department for Cancer Research

$100,000

Spotlight: Survivorship in AYA Patients

$100,000

Spotlight: Cancer Risk Reduction

$100,000

Innovation in Breast Cancer Screening & Diagnosis

$100,000

Human Tissue Resource Center

$80,000

Committee on Cancer Biology

$70,000

Personalized Cancer Treatments

$50,000

Women’s Board Senior Scholar

$50,000

Radiotracers for Cancer Detection & Monitoring Treatment

$50,000

Near the Payline Grant Applications