Research & Grants

Every year, the Marsha Rivkin Center supports ovarian cancer research projects to advance our scientific knowledge about treatment, early detection, and prevention of this deadly disease. Click below to read research project summaries from each year’s crop of outstanding researchers funded by the Marsha Rivkin Center.

Pilot Study Award Recipients - 2009

M. Robyn Anderson, PhD Christine Messineo Annunziata, MD, PhD Anna deFazio, BSc (Hons), PhD

Thomas Spies, PhD Elizabeth Swisher Xiaohong (Mary) Zhang, PhD

2008

Henning Boldt, PhD Dusica Cvetkovic, MD Heike Daldrup-Link, MD, PhD Faris Farassati, PhD, PharmD Mark Gavin, MD, PhD Ingegerd Hellstrom, MD, PhD Ilona Kryczek, PhD

Mark Nachtigal, PhD Alex Nikitin, MD, PhD Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD Toshi Taniguchi, MD, PhD Terry Van Dyke, PhD and Vickie Bae-Jump, MD, PhD Jason Wilken, PhD Kwong-Kwok Wong, PhD

2007

Shu-Wing Ng, PhD, BSc Jill Slack-Davis, PhD Hong Zhang, PhD Fang-Tsyr Lin, MD, PhD Patricia Kruk, PhD

Victor Levenson, MD, PhD Zhiyong Ding, PhD Cassian Yee, MD Mary Zhang, PhD Lainie Martin, MD

2006

Daniela Dinulescu, PhD Robert Jaffe, MD Elizabeth Smith, PhD

Daniela Matei, MD Cassian Yee, MD