{"id":2733,"date":"2025-07-29T20:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2025-08-05T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:43:45","slug":"ut-health-san-antonio-scientists-awarded-v-foundation-grants-to-advance-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/2025\/07\/29\/ut-health-san-antonio-scientists-awarded-v-foundation-grants-to-advance-cancer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Health San Antonio scientists awarded V Foundation grants to advance cancer research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2734 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Valvano_bW-with-color-V.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Valvano_bW-with-color-V.png 2000w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Valvano_bW-with-color-V-450x111.png 450w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Valvano_bW-with-color-V-850x210.png 850w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Valvano_bW-with-color-V-768x189.png 768w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Valvano_bW-with-color-V-1536x379.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2735\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2735\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Elizabeth-Wasmuth-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Elizabeth-Wasmuth-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Elizabeth-Wasmuth-571x800.png 571w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Elizabeth-Wasmuth-768x1076.png 768w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Elizabeth-Wasmuth-1097x1536.png 1097w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Elizabeth-Wasmuth.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Wasmuth, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Wasmuth, PhD<\/strong>, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was named this year\u2019s V Foundation Abeloff Scholar. The award is for her proposal related to steroid receptor aberrations in cancers such as prostate, breast, uterine and ovarian.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is for $600,000 over the next three years. Her unique reductionist system can test what current therapies are working, how resistance develops and what new drugs may provide a more nuanced approach.<\/p>\n<p>Wasmuth\u2019s award is funded through the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund. The V Foundation for Cancer Research was founded in 1993 by ESPN and the late basketball coach Jim Valvano with a mission statement to achieve \u201cVictory Over Cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2736\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2736\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Josephine-Taverna-246x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Josephine-Taverna-246x300.png 246w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Josephine-Taverna-656x800.png 656w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Josephine-Taverna-768x937.png 768w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Josephine-Taverna-1259x1536.png 1259w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/cancer-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/Josephine-Taverna.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josephine Taverna, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Josephine Taverna, MD<\/strong>, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine and the Division of Hematology and Oncology, also received a V Foundation grant. The grant is for her proposal to investigate checkpoint inhibitors for lung cancer treatment that can block cancer signaling within tumor habitats. She also received the A Grant of Her Own: The Women Scientists Innovation Award Translational Research grant. She is one of only six recipients in the United States to earn the $800,000, four-year grant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe predict that triple combination therapy will result in longer remissions so that our patients can stay on the immunotherapy and targeted therapy longer,\u201d Taverna said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Wasmuth, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was named this year\u2019s V Foundation Abeloff Scholar. The award is for her proposal related to steroid receptor aberrations in cancers such as prostate, breast, uterine and ovarian. 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