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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
ProjectYearPI/Project Leader(s)Institution
High throughput multidimensional chemoproteomics for function-directed covalent target discovery2025Keriann Marie BackusUniversity of California Los Angeles
Advanced Development of Patient Ascites Therapeutic Response Biosensors2025Jesse Samuel Boehm, Beth Cimini, Samuel J KlempnerMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Ultra-sensitive mass spectrometry-based immunopeptidomics using digital microfluidics2025Etienne CaronYale University
Defining Intercellular Heterogeneity in Cell Cycle Quiescence2025Jeanette Gowen CookUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill
A Novel Multi-analyte Approach to Democratize Cancer Biobanking2025Brian Michael Davis, Sunil S. Badve, Yesim Gokmen PolarGE Medical Systems Information Technologies, Inc
Next generation platforms for interrogating TCR specificity2025Kenan Christopher GarciaStanford University
Increasing organoid reproducibility and complexity for drug testing and disease modeling2025Zev Jordan GartnerUniversity of California, San Francisco
An enabling approach for deep metaproteomic characterization of microbial contributors to tumorigenesis in clinical samples2025Timothy J. Griffin, Ryan Coulson Hunter, Pratik D. JagtapUniversity of Minnesota
High-throughput and multiplex single-molecule quantification and sorting of single EV2025David Aaron IssadoreUniversity of Pennsylvania
Mapping Dynamic Changes in Protein Interactome using Proximity Labeling with High Temporal Resolution2025Andrei V. Karginov, Alexander AdibekianUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Microbiome-Mediated Tumor Immunomodulation in a Pathomimetic Colorectal Cancer Chip2025Hyun Jung KimCleveland Clinic
Precision single-cell mapping of chromatin-associated protein activity by molecular footprinting to chart disruptions to gene regulation and dissect tumor heterogeneity in cancer2025Dan LandauWeill Medical College of Cornell University
Programmable nucleic acid cytometry for unraveling heterogeneity in tumors and therapies2025Caleb Andrew Lareau, Ronan ChaligneSloan-Kettering Institute of Cancer Research 
Streamlining sample preparation with high throughput SpinEx (Separation processing integration for Extracellular vesicles)2025Hakho LeeMassachusetts General Hospital
High-throughput single-cell joint RNA and DNA methylation mapping of Acute Myeloid Leukemia2025Sai MaIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Charting cellular attraction-based interactome with Multivalent Adhesive Probe AFM (MAPA)2025Pawel A. Osmulski, Maria E. GaczynskaUniversity of Texas Health Science Center
Efficient, cost-effective, and ultrasensitive sequencing of somatic mutations and methylation2025Stephen J. SalipanteUniversity of Washington
Sequence optimization for mRNA cancer therapy2025Georg SeeligUniversity of Washington
Red-light driven targeted degradation of cancer proteins2025Neel H. Shah, Tomislav RovisColumbia University New York Morningside
Single-cell (phospho-)proteomics platform for functional analysis of tumor microenvironment2025Tujin ShiBattelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories
Enriching and Base-Resolution Profiling of 5-Methylcytosine in Degraded Clinical Samples2025Weixin TangUniversity of Chicago
Development of Personalized Intact Proteome Map for Ovarian Cancer Patients Using Ultrasensitive Multiplexed Top-down Proteomics2025Si Wu, Anthony Wg BurgettUniversity of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
Quantification of molecular interactions across the matrix spectrum enables cancer research2024Darryl BornhopVanderbilt University
A platform for multi-modal single nucleus spatial genomics for molecular tumor analysis2024Fei ChenBroad Institute
Bio-orthogonal Mid-infrared Photothermal Imaging of Cancer Metabolism2024Ji-Xin ChengBoston University
Spatial protein-protein interaction networks in situ by multiplexed proximity ligation2024Ahmet CoskunGeorgia Institute of Technology
Nano-CRISPR extracellular vesicle sensing system for longitudinal tumor monitoring2024Hyungsoon ImMassachusetts General Hospital
Microphysiological platform for analyzing multiple myeloma's tumor microenvironment, enabling immunotherapy assessment and drug screening2024Tania Tali KonryNortheastern University
Develop and validate demineralized bone paper-based human bone metabolic and senolytic assays2024Jungwoo LeeUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Precision Tumor Sampling of Melanoma Using Laser Microbiopsy2024Sapun Parekh, James TunnellUniversity of Texas at Austin
3D Proteomics at Single Cell Resolution with Covalent Protein Painting (CPP)2024John Yates IIIScripps Research Institute
Development of a Directed Evolution Platform for RNA Methyltransferases2024Huiqing Zhou, Jia NiuBoston College
Multiplexed, Continuous Reporting of Gene Expression via CRISPR-mediated Transcriptional Activation2024Jeffrey IshizukaYale University
Spatially resolved multi-omics sequencing of FFPE tissues at cellular level2024Yanxiang DengUniversity of Pennsylvania
Evolved Molecules that Destroy Cancer Relevant Proteins2024Elisa BiondiFoundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
A multiplexed high-throughput platform to report pharmacologic alteration of cancer stem cell membrane potential and cell cycle state2024Robert 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-Seq2024Paul BlaineyBroad Institute, Inc.
Quantitative analysis and manipulation of chromosome dynamics in cancer organoids2024Torsten WittmannUniversity of California, San Francisco
Proximity epigenomics for context-specific analysis of complex chromatin features2024Philipp OberdoerfferJohns Hopkins University
Enabling in vivo barcoded single-cell multiomics-compatible genome-wide screens in personalized tumor models using defined-copy somatic transgenesis2024Joshua BreunigCedars-Sinai Medical Center
High Throughput Digital Droplet Assays for Ultrasensitive Multimodal (DNA, RNA, and Protein) Diagnostics2024David IssadoreUniversity of Pennsylvania
An integrated functional proteomics platform for accelerated discovery of isoform-specific determinants of cancer2024Gloria Sheynkman, Stephen YiUniversity of Virginia
Identification of cancer neoepitope-specific T cells using novel high-throughput hydrogel based platforms2024Jonathan SchneckJohns Hopkins University
A Real-Time AI-Driven High-Throughput Proteomics Data Acquisition Method for Clinical Applications2024Wilhelm Haas, Lecia SequistMassachusetts General Hospital
New Chemical Tools for Covalent Drug Discovery2024Jarrod Marto, Justin KimDana-Farber Cancer Institute
Tumor Metabolic Profiling by Multiplexed Single-Cell Lipid and mRNA Imaging2024Sarah HeilshornStanford University
Bioreactor for Manufacturing Chemotactically Competent Immune Cell Therapies2024Parijat BhatnagarSRI International
High-throughput, purification-free, and ultrasensitive transmembrane nanosensor arrays for digital counting of microRNA biomarkers of intact exosomes2023Hao Yan, Rizal HariadiArizona State University - Tempe Campus
Multiplex In-Solution Protein Array (MISPA) for high throughput, quantitative, early profiling of pathogen-induced head and neck2023Joshua LaBaerArizona State University - Tempe Campus
Clonal analysis of cancer by mitochondrial DNA barcoding2023Peter Van Galen, Vijay Ganesh SankaranBrigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital
Development of methods for highly multiplexed quantification of cancer proteomes using large-scale nanobody libraries2023Nir HacohenBroad Institute, Inc.
A Generalizable Photo-Crosslinking Strategy to Identify Tyrosine Phosphatase Substrates2023Neel ShahColumbia University New York Morningside
A High-Throughput Screening Platform to Discover RNA Methylation Inhibitors2023Kathryn MeyerDuke University
Micro-capsules for versatile multiplexed cytometry2023Allon Klein, Linas MazutisHarvard Medical School
Intersectional genetics-based biosensors for dormant cancer cells2023Jose Javier Bravo-CorderoIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bioorthogonal probe development for highly parallel in vivo imaging2023Ralph WeisslederMassachusetts General Hospital
MASTER Scaffolds for Rapid, Single-Step Manufacture and Prototyping of CAR-T cells2023Yevgeny BrudnoNorth Carolina State University Raleigh
A Novel Assay to Individualize Resensitization of Iodine-Refractory Thyroid Cancer2023Guillem PratxStanford University
Triboelectric Ambient Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Renal Cell Carcinomas2023Facundo FernandezGeorgia Institute of Technology
Single cell modeling of cancer mutations2023Hanlee JiStanford University
CoreView and FIBI for rapid-onsite evaluation and molecular profiling of core-needle breast biopsies2023Richard LevensonUniversity of California at Davis
Advanced development of composite gene delivery and CAR engineering systems2023Sidi ChenYale University
Program the Immune System against RAS-driven Cancer2023Xiaojing Gao, Monte Meier WinslowStanford University
Microfluidic technology to isolate tumoricidal T-cells from peripheral blood2023Venktesh ShirureUniversity 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 microscopy2023Brian Cunningham, Aaron Mansfield, Xing WangUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mayo Clinic Rochester
Integrated Imaging Tools for Intercellular Chemokine Signaling2023Gary LukerUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Engineering Protein Modulators of Notch Activation for T-cell Immunotherapy2023Joseph Muretta, Wendy GordonUniversity of Minnesota
Combining Machine Learning and Nanofluidic Technology for the Multiplexed Diagnosis of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma2023David Issadore, Erica CarpenterUniversity of Pennsylvania
Vesicle Epitope Transcript sequencing (VET-seq): Droplet-based Multiomic Profiling Platform for Single Vesicle Analysis2023Yue LuUniversity of Utah
A novel multimodal ECM analysis platform for tumor characterization combining morphological and spectrochemical tissue imaging approaches2023Paul Campagnola, Filiz YesilkoyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Single-Molecule High-Confidence Detection of miRNA Cancer Biomarkers2023Soma DhakalVirginia Commonwealth University
A platform to identify in vivo targets of covalent cancer drugs in 3D tissues2023Li Ye, Benjamin CravattThe Scripps Research Institute
A Rapid and Comprehensive Approach for Clinical Genomic Profiling in Lung Cancer2023Eric Duncavage, David SpencerWashington University
Plate reader assays to forensically assess exposure of plasma and serum to thawed conditions2022Chad BorgesArizona State University - Tempe Campus
In-depth and label-free proteome profiling of hundreds of single cells per day 2022Ryan KellyBrigham Young University
Adapting K-MDS to detect KRAS-mutant ctDNA2022Christopher Counter, James AbbruzzeseDuke University
Aliquot-level visual indicators of biospecimen exposure to thawed conditions2022Chad BorgesArizona State University - Tempe Campus
Stitch-seq for genome-wide pooled genomic screening with RNA-seq readout2022Paul BlaineyBroad Institute, Inc.
Fluorescent gammaPNA Miniprobes for Imaging Telomeric RNA2022Bruce Armitage, Huaiying ZhangCarnegie-Mellon University
A Practical Approach to Tumor-Specific Aptamers for B-Cell Hematologic Malignancies2022Qiao LinColumbia University New York Morningside
MousePaint: A massively combinatorial approach for illuminating tumor heterogeneity in True Color2022Joshua SnyderDuke University
A low-cost, multiplexed digital high resolution melt platform for DNA methylation-based detection and identification of cancers in liquid biopsies2022Tza-Huei Jeff Wang, Thomas Pisanic IIJohns Hopkins University
3D Fourier Imaging System for High Throughput Analyses of Cancer Organoids2022Hakho LeeMassachusetts Institute of Technology
A cell-cycle induced genetic recorder for simultaneous recovery of cell divisions and lineage2022Ron Weiss, Carlo MaleyMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Targeted Isolation and Identification of Sialylated Glycoproteins in Cancer Tissues, Cells, and Biofluids2022Richard DrakeMedical University of South Carolina
A CRISPR/Cas13 approach for identifying individual transcript isoform function in cancer2022David KnowlesNew York Genome Center
Accessible high-throughput single-cell genome sequencing2022Andrew AdeyOregon Health & Science University
A Novel Fluorescence Imaging Platform to Predict Response to Combinatorial Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors2022Summer GibbsOregon Health & Science University
Systematic characterization of cancer variants using single-cell functional genomics2022Thomas Norman, Scott LoweSloan Kettering Institute Cancer Research
A micro-dissection platform for generating uniform-sized patient-derived tumor organoids (PDOs) for personalized cancer therapy2022Sindy TangStanford University
Molecular and cellular imaging of bone biopsies using AI augmented deep UV Raman microscopy2022Vladislav Yakovlev, Mikhail BerezinTexas Engineering Experiment Station, Washington University
Stimulated Brillouin Flow Cytometry for biomechanical assessment of metastatic potential2022Giuliano Scarcelli, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Stuart MartinUniversity of Maryland College Park, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland Baltimore
Microfluidic Precision Engineered Artificial Antigen Presenting Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy2022Abraham Lee, Anshu AgrawalUniversity of California-Irvine
A highly sensitive linear amplification based DNA methylation profiling technique for clinical cancer research2022Brian C-H Chiu, Wei ZhangUniversity of Chicago, Northwestern University
Transfer RNA sequencing and application to cancer research and clinics2022Tao Pan, Bruce Bissonnette, Benjamin ShoganUniversity of Chicago
Molecular Sub-typing Breast Cancer Patients using a Liquid Biopsy2022Steven SoperUniversity of Kansas Lawrence
Single-Cell Protein Activity Profiling in Breast Cancer Cells and Tissues2022Raymond MoelleringUniversity of Chicago
Optogenetic Control of Tumor Initiation and Tumor Progression in vivo2022Andrei Karginov, Jalees RehmanUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Advanced development and validation of an in vitro platform to phenotype brain metastatic tumor cells using artificial intelligence2022Sofia Merajver, Jianping FuUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Enhanced mass-spectrometry-based approaches for in-depth profiling of the cancer extracellular matrix2022Alexandra Naba, Yu GaoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
High-throughput inverted reporter assay for characterization of silencers and enhancer blockers2022Alan BoyleUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Photolithographic Tumor DNA Isolation2022Darryl ShibataUniversity of Southern California
A synthetic toolkit for the recombinant production of tyrosine phosphorylated proteins and peptides2022Kristen NaegleUniversity of Virginia
Efficient, cost-effective, and ultrasensitive sequencing of somatic mutations2022Stephen SalipanteUniversity of Washington
Expanding the GoT toolkit to link single-cell clonal genotypes with protein, transcriptomic, epigenomic, and spatial phenotypes2022Dan LandauWeill Medical Coll of Cornell University

 

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