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“My community funded grant award will enable us to perform a pilot project on a high-risk, high-impact idea that would otherwise be impossible to execute. We are very grateful for the opportunity to perform this research.”
Rebecca Morris, Ph.D. Stem Cells & Cancer
“From a small seed grows a mighty oak. This Paint The Town Pink award is an investment in our science that will pay dividends for many years to come. This seed funding enables us to generate the preliminary data that we need to grow our research program and secure more substantial, longer-term funding from national funding agencies like the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health. What starts as an idea, if given the right resources and support, may grow into a new treatment or cure.”
Jarrod French, Ph.D.
Nucleotide Metabolism & Drug Discovery
“This grant has given me the platform
to work on cancer biology so that I can test some of the novel ideas
that can be helpful
to cancer patients.”
Bindeswhar Sah, Ph.D. Post Doc, Chromatin and Epigenetic Gene Regulation
“I received a prostate cancer seed grant to pursue an exciting new research idea.
The preliminary data
I collected helped me apply for and receive
a nearly $1 million national grant to continue this research.”
Rendong Yang, Ph.D. Computational Cancer Genomics
“My lab studies an aggressive, lethal form of liver cancer known as bile duct cancer
or cholangiocarcinoma. Community-funded grants
at The Hormel Institute have allowed us to look at how discoveries made in our lab may also affect breast cancer, prostate cancer, and other forms of cancer.”
Sergio Gradilone, Ph.D.
Cancer Cell Biology & Translational Research