Past MSTS Sarcoma Strong Grant Recipients

Congratulations to the following recipients of past MSTS Sarcoma Strong grants and awards. 

Recipients of MSTS Sarcoma Strong Research Grants

  • 2017 - Dr. Bang Hoang - Albert Einstein College of Medicine for his research titled: Targeting MicroRNA by Flavokawain as Therapy for Osteosarcoma
  • 2019 - Dr. Brock A. Lindsey - West Virginia University Hospital for his research titled: Delineating Mechanisms of Checkpoint Blockade Failure While Manipulating MDSCs as a Treatment to this Conundrum
  • 2020 - Dr. Maksim Vaynrub - Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research for his research titled: A Pilot Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Preoperative Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Metastatic Bone Disease Requiring Surgical Stabilization
  • 2022 - Dr. Julia Visgauss - Duke University for her research titled: Investigating the role of LCP1 in metastatic progression of chondrosarcoma
  • 2023 - Dr. Krista Goulding, MD - Mayo Clinic Arizona for her research titled: Pre-Operative ERAS (Enhances Recovery After Surgery: Feasibility of implementing individualized prehabilitation for people scheduled for lower limb soft-tissue sarcoma surgery 

Recipients of the MSTS Sarcoma Strong Mentored Research Awards: 

  • 2018 - Dr. Rosana Wustrack - University of CA San Francisco for her research titled: Identifying and Enhancing Host Immune Response in Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma
  • 2019 - Dr. Santiago Lozano-Calderon - Massachusetts General Hospital for his research titled: MicroRNA Profiling in Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma
  • 2022 - Dr. Steven W. Thorpe - University of CA (Davis) for his research titled: Interrogating the downstream effects of macrophage polarization in the osteosarcoma tumor microenvironment on alveolar resident tissue macrophages 
  • 2023 - Dr Anthony Bozzo - Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research for his research titled: Development of a Multi-Input Convolutional Neural Network to Predict Outcomes in Soft Tissue Sarcoma
  • 2023 - Dr. Joshua M. Lawrenz - Vanderbilt University Medical Center for his research titled: Assessing the Utility of Radiomics and Machine Learning in the Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Soft Tissue Malignancies