AHEPA Leadership attended the 33rd Annual Fifth District AHEPA Cancer Research Foundation, Inc. Gala in Edison, New Jersey last weekend, where three $12,500 grants were awarded to aid in the progress of cancer research. Congratulations to the grant recipients!

• Edna Cukierman, Ph.D. Fox Chase Cancer Center: Meaningful Connections PART-E: Generating a novel drug to target cells in the neighborhood of human pancreatic cancer for the potential benefit of patients
• Shridar Ganesan, M.D., Ph.D. Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey: for new treatments for resistant triple negative breast cancer
• David C. Lyden, M.D., Ph.D. Stavros S. Niarchos Professor, Weill Medical College of Cornell University/Children’s Blood Foundation: for Exosome DNA as a novel vaccine therapy for cancer