July 2023
Dr. Alluri and Dr. Lux awarded 2023 Synergy Grant for Collaborative Research
Dr. Prasanna Alluri and Dr. Jacques Lux, Associate Professor with the Department of Radiology, were awarded a 2023 Synergy Grant for Collaborative Research from UT Southwestern's Dean's Office. This $100,000 grant will support their efforts to turn immunologically cold breast tumors into extraordinary responders to immunotherapy using a combination of radiotherapy and inhibition of DNA mismatch repair pathway.
July 2023
Dr. Alluri and Dr. Joshi received COBRA from UT Dallas
Dr. Alluri and Dr. Purna Joshi, an Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas, received a Collaborative Biomedical Research Award (COBRA) from UT Dallas. This $125,000 grant will establish a new collaborative research program between the Alluri and Joshi labs to elucidate the role of adipocyte progenitors in treatment resistance in breast cancer.
June 2023
Dr. Alluri and Dr. Lux received CTSA Team Science Pilot Grant Award
Dr. Alluri and Dr. Jacques Lux, with the Department of Radiology, received the CTSA Team Science Pilot Grant Award. This grant will support their work on developing novel immunotherapies for patients with breast cancer.
June 2023
Dr. Alluri received UT Southwestern's CTSA Clinical and Translational Pilot Grant Award
Dr. Alluri received UT Southwestern's CTSA Clinical and Translational Pilot Grant Award, which will support Dr. Alluri's work on studying mechanisms of radiation-induced cardiotoxicity in patients receiving thoracic radiation.
January 2023
Dr. Alluri received METAvivor Metastatic Breast Cancer Translational Research Award
Dr. Alluri received the METAvivor Metastatic Breast Cancer Translational Research Award. This $250,000 grant will support his work on developing new strategies to overcome CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance.
October 2022
Dr. Alluri awarded the 2022 Charles Pak Family Breast Cancer – Bone Initiative Grant
Dr. Alluri was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Charles Pak Family Breast Cancer – Bone Initiative Grant Award. This $125,000 award funds innovative research in the field of breast cancer and bone metastasis. Dr. Alluri and his lab will use these funds to develop new treatment approaches to overcome resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors in breast cancer patients.
January 2022
Chantal Vidal, Ph.D., selected as an UTSW Provost's Initiative for Diverse Emerging Scholars
Chantal Vidal, Ph.D., was selected as a UT Southwestern Provost’s Initiative for Diverse Emerging Scholars (PROVIDES). PROVIDES selects graduating Ph.D. students who plan to pursue an academic faculty position. Chantal is one of only six such scholars at UTSW and the first from the Department of Radiation Oncology.
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Dr. Elizabeth Zhang-Velten received an ASTRO research award
Dr. Elizabeth Zhang-Velten received an ASTRO research award, which is given to the highest scoring resident-submitted abstract. The award was for her research in Dr. Alluri's lab on early non-invasive detection of radiation-induced heart disease. It was found in their preclinical model that radiation caused shifts in heart cell metabolism that can be picked up by a specialized dye on MRI.
August 2021
Ev Kakadiaris received a Student & Early Career Investigator Scholarship
Ev Kakadiaris, medical student, received a Student & Early Career Investigator Scholarship from AACR for her work on racial disparities in enrollment of patients in partial breast radiation trials.
July 2021
Dr. Chantal Vidal selected as UTSW Cancer Intervention and Prevention Discoveries Program Fellow
Dr. Chantal Vidal, a postdoctoral fellow, was selected as UTSW Cancer Intervention and Prevention Discoveries Program Fellow, which is funded by CPRIT.
June 2021
Dr. Elizabeth Zhang-Velten received an ASTRO abstract award
May 2021
Dr. Elizabeth Zhang-Velten's abstract was selected for an oral presentation at ASTRO
April 2021
Dr. Elizabeth Zhang-Velten received an ASCO/Conquer Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award
September 2020
Dr. Alluri received a $1.5 million Breast Cancer Research Program Breakthrough Award from the Department of Defense (DOD)
Dr. Alluri received a $1.5 million Breast Cancer Research Program Breakthrough Award from the Department of Defense (DOD) in partnership with Dr. Ram Mani in the Department of Pathology at UT Southwestern. Their study will define how reprogramming of transcriptional and DNA repair pathways drives resistance to endocrine therapies and CDK4/6 inhibitors in breast cancer patients. They will also develop new targeted therapies that reverse treatment resistance by targeting this pathological reprogramming, thereby expanding treatment options for breast cancer patients who have become unresponsive to existing treatments. Breast cancer grants funded by DOD are some of the most competitive federal grants with a funding rate of only 5-6%.
March 2019
Dr. Alluri and Dr. Salomon Stemmer awarded funding for their proposal
Dr. Alluri and Dr. Salomon Stemmer, Professor in Oncology at Rabin Medical Center, were awarded funding for their proposal entitled "Defining Mechanisms of CDK4/6 Inhibitor Resistance in Advanced, ER-Positive Breast Cancer." The collaboration between these two institutions will help to promote inter-institutional research and training to take advantage of each institute's respective strengths.
March 2019
Jayesh Sharma selected as 2019 Amgen Scholar
Jayesh Sharma selected as 2019 Amgen Scholar to continue research in the Alluri Lab studying treatment resistance in breast cancer. UT Southwestern is one of only 13 host institutions for Amgen Scholars and Jayesh is one of 15 UTSW Amgen Scholars selected from a national pool of applicants.
November 2018
Dr. Alluri receives Translational Research Grant
Dr. Prasanna Alluri receives Translational Research Grant from Department of Radiation Oncology to employ metabolic imaging to detect radiation-induced cardiac injury in early stage breast cancer patients.
October 2018
Dr. Alluri receives DocStar Award for innovative research in breast cancer
September 2018
Dr. Alluri elected to serve on UT Southwestern Medical School Admissions Committee
June 2018
Jessica Nguyen joins Alluri Lab as STARS Research Fellow
June 2018
Isabella Raicu receives Emperor of Science Award
Isabella Raicu receives Emperor of Science Award in a nationally competitive program sponsored by Stand Up To Cancer and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) to carry out breast cancer research in Alluri Lab.
May 2018
Jayesh Sharma joins Alluri Lab as an Undergraduate Research Fellow
May 2018
Dr. Nashir Udden joins Alluri Lab as Instructor
December 2017