From funds raised in 2020, $50,000 went to support the University of Pittsburgh sarcoma tumor registry and tissue bank. Another $10,000 purchased a new ultra low temp freezer for the Hillman Cancer Center. We also set aside $30,000 in emergency funds to support six wet labs across the University of Pittsburgh, Children’s Hospital, Allegheny Health Network and West Virginia University Medicine.
Prior to 2020, funds raised went to the Sarcoma Foundation of America to support sarcoma research nationally and locally. Fifty percent of the net proceeds supported the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Sarcoma Research Fund through a restricted sarcoma research grant. The other fifty percent of net proceeds were delegated to sarcoma research grants throughout the country, at the discretion of the SFA. In total, Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma races have funded ten $50,000 sarcoma research grants through the SFA:
2013
Pittsburgh 5K Cure Sarcoma Research Grant
Brian Van Tine, MD, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis
“A metabolomic approach to targeting ASS1 deficient sarcomas”
2014
Pittsburgh 5K Cure Sarcoma Research Grant
Liang-Chuan Wang, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
“CAR T Cell Therapy for Sarcoma”
2015
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma Co-Founder Carl Firetto Memorial Research Award
Meenakshi Hegde, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
“Adoptive cellular therapy for Ewing’s sarcoma”
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma Co-Founder Bill Suit Memorial Research Award
Steven Katz, MD
Roger Williams Hospital
“Pre-clinical development of anti-KIT CAR-Ts for metastatic GIST”
2016
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma Co-Founder Carl Firetto Memorial Research Award
William Karl Decker, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
“Outbred Canine Model of Adjuvant Immunotherapy for Angiosarcoma”
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma Co-Founder Bill Suit Memorial Research Award
Lionel Mu-Lo Chow, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
“A Novel Genetically Engineered Mouse Model for Angiosarcoma: Molecular Characterization and Comparison to Human Angiosarcoma to Develop Targeted Therapy”
2017
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma Research Award
Cheryl London, DVM, PhD
Tufts Medical Center
“Interrogating the regulation, function and therapeutic potential of monocarboxylate transporters in osteosarcoma”
2018
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma Research Award
Maria Paola Paronetto, PhD
IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation
“Global impact of the DNA/RNA helicase DHX9 on the processing of coding and noncoding transcripts in Ewing sarcoma pathogenesis”
2019
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma Research Award
David Scadden, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
“Identification of molecular targets promoting differentiation and loss of self renewal in osteosarcoma”
2020
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma Research Award
Ryan Roberts, MD, PhD
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
“Identifying mechanisms of osteosarcoma chemoresistance that arise from the lung metastatic niche”
