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Forbes Scholars

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The Forbes Scholars initiative offers faculty members throughout the University of Michigan funding for high-risk, high-reward cancer research

Awards focus on faculty dedicated to team science, embodying the ideals of the Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery. We seek the most dynamic researchers with the boldest ideas from all areas of campus.

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Support the Mission of the Forbes Institute

Through grants funded entirely by philanthropy, we are creating bridges from oncology to critical care medicine, pathology, public health, math, chemistry, engineering, and more. We are bringing all disciplines to bear on advancing new cancer therapies.

Join us! Your support will help create the next generation of treatments across the spectrum of cancer. Together, we can improve patients’ experiences and save lives here and around the world.

Advisory Board

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The Forbes Institute’s Institutional Advisory Board facilitates strategic planning and research prioritization, reviews scientific proposals, and advises on optimizing and leveraging existing U-M resources.

Members:

Health coalition forms National Lung Cancer Roundtable to increase screening, reduce lung cancer deaths

The American Cancer Society and a coalition of leading professional, government and non-governmental organizations are coming together to form the National Lung Cancer Roundtable to accelerate the nation’s efforts to reduce mortality from lung cancer.

A new approach to target an 'undruggable' prostate cancer driver

When small-molecule inhibitors proved elusive, researchers developed a novel strategy: Using large molecule peptides to target a common prostate cancer driver. It may provide a path for developing new therapies against a challenging target.

Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery announces $500K in grants

The Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery at the University of Michigan has announced its first round of grant recipients, with $500,000 earmarked to undertake high-risk, high-reward initiatives with the potential to drive new advances in cancer research.

Revised understanding of graft-versus-host disease origins offers new direction for potential therapies

An international research team led by the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute is changing the understanding of the key cellular and molecular events that trigger graft-versus-host disease, an often-fatal complication of bone marrow transplants.

Pancreatic Cancer Research Team

The information on this page has moved. To learn more about the researchers working on pancreatic cancer, please visit the Pancreatic Cancer Research Laboratories web page, part of the Pancreatic Disease Initiative's website.

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