Massimo Loda, M.D.David D. Thompson Professor & Chairman of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Please join us in congratulating our Chair Dr. Massimo Loda on today earning a 2022 Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Award for his project, "Targeting Lipid Metabolism and Diet in Patients with Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer."
"PCF Challenge Awards fund international, multi-institutional, cross-disciplinary teams of investigators conducting highly innovative research with the greatest potential for accelerating new and improved treatments for advanced prostate cancer. Following a rigorous peer review process that assessed each project’s scientific merit and potential patient impact, 15 highly coveted PCF Challenge Awards totaling more than $12 million were granted to teams at some of the world’s leading cancer research institutions."
2022 PCF Challenge Award
Project Title: Targeting Lipid Metabolism and Diet in Patients with Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
(Testing the effects of combining a treatment targeting the enzyme FASN with a diet that modulates the levels of dietary lipids used in metabolic pathways that fuel prostate cancer.)
Team Leader: Massimo Loda, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Additional project details can be found here.