The Cancer Systems Biology Pilot Project program supports the short-term exploration of innovative, high-risk concepts that complement existing CCMI research.
Two pilot projects were awarded in 2026-2027 (CCMI 2.0, Year 5) to: Dr. Kevin Lou a QBI Fellow at UCSF and Dr. Xiaoyu Zhao a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego.
Read MoreThree pilot projects were awarded in 2025-2026 (CCMI 2.0, Year 4) to: Dr. Kevin Lou a QBI Fellow at UCSF, Dr. Irina Kufareva an Associate Professor at UC San Diego, and Dr. Dwayne Stupack a Professor at UC San Diego's Moores Cancer Center.
Read MoreIn Year 3 of CCMI 2.0, 2024-2025, Hannah Carter, PhD, Professor of Medicine at UCSD, was awarded a pilot project in collaboration with Drs. Prashant Mali and Stephanie Fraley, for their project entitled "In vivo high throughput screening to identify protein interactions required for breast cancer metastasis"
Read MoreThree pilot projects were awarded in Year 2 of CCMI 2.0: Alejandro Chavez, Associate Professor at UC San Diego, Alexander Marson, Assistant Professor at UCSF, and Karin Pelka, Assistant Professor at UCSF.
Read MoreRobin Bachelder, Research Director of the Ideker Laboratory at UC San Diego, was awarded a pilot project for Year 1 of CCMI 2.0.
Read MoreTwo pilot projects were awarded in the CCMI's Year 5 (2021-2022): Hannah Carter, an Associate Professor at UC San Diego, and Natalia Jura, an Associate Professor at UCSF.
Read MoreTwo pilot projects were awarded in the CCMI's Year 4 (2020-2021): Natalia Jura, an Assistant Professor at UCSF, and Olivier Harismendy, Associate Professor at UC San Diego.
Read MoreTwo pilot projects were awarded in Y3 of the CCMI (2019-2020): Alon Goren, an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, and Natalia Jura, an Assistant Professor at UCSF.
Read MoreTwo pilot projects were awarded in Y2 of the CCMI (2018-2019): David Rideout, an Associate Research Scientist at UC San Diego, and Natalia Jura, an Assistant Professor at UCSF.
Read MoreFour pilot projects were awarded in Y1 of the CCMI (2017-2018): Christian Metallo, Associate Professor at UC San Diego; Hani Goodarzi, Assistant Professor at UCSF; Keith Yamamoto, Professor at UCSF; and Susan Taylor and Pablo Tamayo, Professors at UC San Diego.
Read MoreThis program is supported with funds from the Cancer Cell Map Initiative along with institutional support from UCSF and UC San Diego Health Sciences
