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IMAT Funded Projects

The Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program makes new awards every year to support the early-stage and advanced development of novel and emerging technologies that meet the needs of basic, translational, or clinical cancer research. 

Recently Awarded Projects

Project Year PI/Project Leader(s) Institution
A multiplexed high-throughput platform to report pharmacologic alteration of cancer stem cell membrane potential and cell cycle state 2024 Robert Rostomily,
Francois St-Pierre
Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine
Profiling and perturbing the inheritance of drug-induced metabolic states in cancer with Inheritance-Seq 2024 Paul Blainey Broad Institute, Inc.
Quantitative analysis and manipulation of chromosome dynamics in cancer organoids 2024 Torsten Wittmann University of California, San Francisco
Proximity epigenomics for context-specific analysis of complex chromatin features 2024 Philipp Oberdoerffer Johns Hopkins University
Enabling in vivo barcoded single-cell multiomics-compatible genome-wide screens in personalized tumor models using defined-copy somatic transgenesis 2024 Joshua Breunig Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
High Throughput Digital Droplet Assays for Ultrasensitive Multimodal (DNA, RNA, and Protein) Diagnostics 2024 David Issadore University of Pennsylvania
An integrated functional proteomics platform for accelerated discovery of isoform-specific determinants of cancer 2024 Gloria Sheynkman, Stephen Yi University of Virginia
Identification of cancer neoepitope-specific T cells using novel high-throughput hydrogel based platforms 2024 Jonathan Schneck Johns Hopkins University
A Real-Time AI-Driven High-Throughput Proteomics Data Acquisition Method for Clinical Applications 2024 Wilhelm Haas, Lecia Sequist Massachusetts General Hospital
New Chemical Tools for Covalent Drug Discovery 2024 Jarrod Marto, Justin Kim Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Tumor Metabolic Profiling by Multiplexed Single-Cell Lipid and mRNA Imaging 2024 Sarah Heilshorn Stanford University
Bioreactor for Manufacturing Chemotactically Competent Immune Cell Therapies 2024 Parijat Bhatnagar SRI International
High-throughput, purification-free, and ultrasensitive transmembrane nanosensor arrays for digital counting of microRNA biomarkers of intact exosomes 2023 Hao Yan, Rizal Hariadi

Arizona State University - Tempe Campus

Multiplex In-Solution Protein Array (MISPA) for high throughput, quantitative, early profiling of pathogen-induced head and neck 2023 Joshua LaBaer Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Clonal analysis of cancer by mitochondrial DNA barcoding 2023 Peter Van Galen, Vijay Ganesh Sankaran Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital
Development of methods for highly multiplexed quantification of cancer proteomes using large-scale nanobody libraries 2023 Nir Hacohen Broad Institute, Inc.
A Generalizable Photo-Crosslinking Strategy to Identify Tyrosine Phosphatase Substrates 2023 Neel Shah Columbia University New York Morningside
A High-Throughput Screening Platform to Discover RNA Methylation Inhibitors 2023 Kathryn Meyer Duke University
Micro-capsules for versatile multiplexed cytometry 2023 Allon Klein, Linas Mazutis Harvard Medical School
Intersectional genetics-based biosensors for dormant cancer cells 2023 Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bioorthogonal probe development for highly parallel in vivo imaging 2023 Ralph Weissleder Massachusetts General Hospital
MASTER Scaffolds for Rapid, Single-Step Manufacture and Prototyping of CAR-T cells 2023 Yevgeny Brudno North Carolina State University Raleigh
A Novel Assay to Individualize Resensitization of Iodine-Refractory Thyroid Cancer 2023 Guillem Pratx Stanford University
Triboelectric Ambient Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Renal Cell Carcinomas 2023 Facundo Fernandez Georgia Institute of Technology
Single cell modeling of cancer mutations 2023 Hanlee Ji Stanford University
CoreView and FIBI for rapid-onsite evaluation and molecular profiling of core-needle breast biopsies 2023 Richard Levenson University of California at Davis
Advanced development of composite gene delivery and CAR engineering systems 2023 Sidi Chen Yale University
Program the Immune System against RAS-driven Cancer 2023 Xiaojing Gao, Monte Meier Winslow Stanford University
Microfluidic technology to isolate tumoricidal T-cells from peripheral blood 2023 Venktesh Shirure University of California at Davis
Rapid, simple, and ultrasensitive quantitation of KRAS ctDNA at the point of care using CRISPR/Cas amplification and digital resolution biosensor microscopy 2023 Brian Cunningham, Aaron Mansfield, Xing Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mayo Clinic Rochester
Integrated Imaging Tools for Intercellular Chemokine Signaling 2023 Gary Luker University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Engineering Protein Modulators of Notch Activation for T-cell Immunotherapy 2023 Joseph Muretta, Wendy Gordon University of Minnesota
Combining Machine Learning and Nanofluidic Technology for the Multiplexed Diagnosis of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma 2023 David Issadore, Erica Carpenter University of Pennsylvania
Vesicle Epitope Transcript sequencing (VET-seq): Droplet-based Multiomic Profiling Platform for Single Vesicle Analysis 2023 Yue Lu University of Utah
A novel multimodal ECM analysis platform for tumor characterization combining morphological and spectrochemical tissue imaging approaches 2023 Paul Campagnola, Filiz Yesilkoy University of Wisconsin-Madison
Single-Molecule High-Confidence Detection of miRNA Cancer Biomarkers 2023 Soma Dhakal Virginia Commonwealth University
A platform to identify in vivo targets of covalent cancer drugs in 3D tissues 2023 Li Ye, Benjamin Cravatt The Scripps Research Institute
A Rapid and Comprehensive Approach for Clinical Genomic Profiling in Lung Cancer 2023 Eric Duncavage, David Spencer Washington University
Plate reader assays to forensically assess exposure of plasma and serum to thawed conditions 2022 Chad Borges Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
In-depth and label-free proteome profiling of hundreds of single cells per day  2022 Ryan Kelly Brigham Young University
Adapting K-MDS to detect KRAS-mutant ctDNA 2022 Christopher Counter, James Abbruzzese Duke University
Aliquot-level visual indicators of biospecimen exposure to thawed conditions 2022 Chad Borges Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Stitch-seq for genome-wide pooled genomic screening with RNA-seq readout 2022 Paul Blainey Broad Institute, Inc.
Fluorescent gammaPNA Miniprobes for Imaging Telomeric RNA 2022 Bruce Armitage, Huaiying Zhang Carnegie-Mellon University
A Practical Approach to Tumor-Specific Aptamers for B-Cell Hematologic Malignancies 2022 Qiao Lin Columbia University New York Morningside
MousePaint: A massively combinatorial approach for illuminating tumor heterogeneity in True Color 2022 Joshua Snyder Duke University
A low-cost, multiplexed digital high resolution melt platform for DNA methylation-based detection and identification of cancers in liquid biopsies 2022 Tza-Huei Jeff Wang, Thomas Pisanic II Johns Hopkins University
3D Fourier Imaging System for High Throughput Analyses of Cancer Organoids 2022 Hakho Lee Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A cell-cycle induced genetic recorder for simultaneous recovery of cell divisions and lineage 2022 Ron Weiss, Carlo Maley Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Targeted Isolation and Identification of Sialylated Glycoproteins in Cancer Tissues, Cells, and Biofluids 2022 Richard Drake Medical University of South Carolina
A CRISPR/Cas13 approach for identifying individual transcript isoform function in cancer 2022 David Knowles New York Genome Center
Accessible high-throughput single-cell genome sequencing 2022 Andrew Adey Oregon Health & Science University
A Novel Fluorescence Imaging Platform to Predict Response to Combinatorial Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors 2022 Summer Gibbs Oregon Health & Science University
Systematic characterization of cancer variants using single-cell functional genomics 2022 Thomas Norman, Scott Lowe Sloan Kettering Institute Cancer Research
A micro-dissection platform for generating uniform-sized patient-derived tumor organoids (PDOs) for personalized cancer therapy 2022 Sindy Tang Stanford University
Molecular and cellular imaging of bone biopsies using AI augmented deep UV Raman microscopy 2022 Vladislav Yakovlev, Mikhail Berezin Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Washington University
Stimulated Brillouin Flow Cytometry for biomechanical assessment of metastatic potential 2022 Giuliano Scarcelli, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Stuart Martin University of Maryland College Park, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland Baltimore
Microfluidic Precision Engineered Artificial Antigen Presenting Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy 2022 Abraham Lee, Anshu Agrawal University of California-Irvine
A highly sensitive linear amplification based DNA methylation profiling technique for clinical cancer research 2022 Brian C-H Chiu, Wei Zhang University of Chicago, Northwestern University
Transfer RNA sequencing and application to cancer research and clinics 2022 Tao Pan, Bruce Bissonnette, Benjamin Shogan University of Chicago
Molecular Sub-typing Breast Cancer Patients using a Liquid Biopsy 2022 Steven Soper University of Kansas Lawrence
Single-Cell Protein Activity Profiling in Breast Cancer Cells and Tissues 2022 Raymond Moellering University of Chicago
Optogenetic Control of Tumor Initiation and Tumor Progression in vivo 2022 Andrei Karginov, Jalees Rehman University of Illinois at Chicago
Advanced development and validation of an in vitro platform to phenotype brain metastatic tumor cells using artificial intelligence 2022 Sofia Merajver, Jianping Fu University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Enhanced mass-spectrometry-based approaches for in-depth profiling of the cancer extracellular matrix 2022 Alexandra Naba, Yu Gao University of Illinois at Chicago
High-throughput inverted reporter assay for characterization of silencers and enhancer blockers 2022 Alan Boyle University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Photolithographic Tumor DNA Isolation 2022 Darryl Shibata University of Southern California
A synthetic toolkit for the recombinant production of tyrosine phosphorylated proteins and peptides 2022 Kristen Naegle University of Virginia
Efficient, cost-effective, and ultrasensitive sequencing of somatic mutations 2022 Stephen Salipante University of Washington
Expanding the GoT toolkit to link single-cell clonal genotypes with protein, transcriptomic, epigenomic, and spatial phenotypes 2022 Dan Landau Weill Medical Coll of Cornell University

 

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