top of page
Seed Grant Awardees
The Nikki Mitchell Foundation Seed Grant
In 2019, the Nikki Mitchell Foundation partnered with the Pancreas Club to award an annual $20,000 seed grant to a junior faculty member at the Pancreas Club Conference. Junior faculty members hold a Ph.D. degree and carry on active research in the labs under an independent researcher, and they are on the path to being independent researchers with their own research group. Because they don’t have their own research group, junior faculty members struggle to get grants for their research. NMF awards the annual seed grant to junior faculty members specifically so they can begin the process of obtaining grants for their own research groups.
2024 Seed Grant Winner:
Maximizing Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Immunotherapy
Success: Assessing Murine B7-H3 CAR T Cells in Adjuvant,
Neoadjuvant, and Monotherapy Application in Combination with
GLUT1 Inhibitor
2021 Seed Grant Winner:
Inhibiting the Educational Niche for Formation of Dissemination-Competent Cell Populations in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
2023 Seed Grant Winner:
Developing a Novel Technique for Culturing of Circulating Tumor Cells in Pancreatic Cancer patients for
Realtime Assessment of Circulating Disease.
2020 Seed Grant Winner:
Nerve Growth Factor Signaling in Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms
2022 Seed Grant Winner:
Rapid In-Vivo Drug Testing with Implantable Microdevice for Personalized Care in Pancreatic Cancer
2019 Seed Grant Winner:
Targeting of Tumor Stroma to Enhance the Efficacy of Irreversible Electroporation (IRE)
bottom of page