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BLR&D Research Career Scientist Award Application

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基本信息

批准号：
10516022
负责人：
XUE-RU WU
金额：
--
依托单位：
VA MEDICAL CENTER
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-10-01 至 2023-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10516022
关键词：
9p21 Ablation Affect Age Years American American Cancer Society Animal Model Appointment Award Basic Science Biochemistry Biological Biological Markers Bladder Bladder Neoplasm CDKN2A gene Cancer Diagnostics Cancer Etiology Cell Line Cell Proliferation Cellular biology Cisplatin Clinical Clinical Management Clinical Research Collaborations Communities Data Dependence Development Diagnosis Disease Disease Management Doctor of Philosophy Economic Burden Education Emotional Enzymes Epigenetic Process European Event Expenditure Faculty Female Foundations Funding General Population Genes Genetic Genetically Engineered Mouse Goals Grant Growth Growth Factor Receptors Healthcare Healthcare Systems Human In Vitro Incidence Journals Kidney Calculi Knock-in Knock-out Knowledge Laboratories Laboratory Finding Laboratory Research Lesion Malignant Neoplasms Malignant neoplasm of lung Malignant neoplasm of urinary bladder Medical Mentors Minor Mission Modality Modeling Molecular Morbidity - disease rate Mus Names Nature New York Oncogenes PIK3CG gene Pain Paper Papillary Papillary Neoplasm Pathogenesis Pathway interactions Patient Care Patients Peer Review Persons Phenotype Physical Sufferings Play Postdoctoral Fellow Predisposition Prevalence Prevention Prevention strategy Principal Investigator Procedures Process Prognosis Program Research Project Grants Protein Family Proteins Publishing Pyruvate Kinase Quality of life RNA Interference Receptor Activation Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases Recurrent disease Research Research Activity Research Personnel Research Support Resistance Risk Role Scientist Series Services Signal Transduction Smoker Smoking Specimen Spinal cord injury Surveys TP53 gene Therapeutic Tobacco smoking behavior Training Transgenic Organisms Translational Research Tumor Promotion Tumor Suppressor Genes Tumor Suppressor Proteins Tumorigenicity UMOD gene United States National Academy of Sciences United States National Institutes of Health Universities Urinary tract Urologic Diseases Urology Variant Veterans Warburg Effect Woman aging population anaerobic glycolysis anticancer research base body system calcification cancer cell cancer initiation cancer therapy carcinogenesis career chemical carcinogenesis clinical investigation combinatorial cost disorder prevention dosage economic impact improved in vivo insight interdisciplinary collaboration interest invention lifetime risk lost work time male member men molecular subtypes mortality mouse model multidisciplinary muscle invasive bladder cancer neglect non-smoker novel novel diagnostics novel strategies overexpression pain relief small molecule smoking-related cancer socioeconomics targeted treatment tool treatment strategy tumor tumor initiation tumor progression urinary urologic

项目摘要

This renewal application for Research Career Scientist (RCS) award seeks to continue the ongoing research activities by the incumbent that have been focused on the molecular pathogenesis of major urinary tract diseases including bladder cancer and kidney stone. Both diseases are highly prevalent among the Veterans, and inflict considerable emotional and physical suffering and staggering medical expenses. Despite the socioeconomic impact, research into the molecular pathogenesis of these diseases remains extremely limited, thus hampering the development of new diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive strategies. During the last award period, the laboratory of the RCS has made significant inroads in defining the key genetic and epigenetic determinants underlying the initiation and progression of bladder cancer and kidney stone. With respect to bladder cancer, the laboratory of the RCS identified several specific combinatorial genetic drivers that are responsible for the genesis and progression of the two major phenotypic variants of bladder cancer, e.g., low-grade superficial papillary tumors versus high-grade invasive tumors. Using a broad range of technical approaches including cultured cell lines, genetically engineered mice, chemical carcinogenesis, analysis of human specimens and high-throughput profiling, the laboratory found that the activation of receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK)/RAS/PI3K pathway collaborates with the loss of 9p21 tumor suppressors (e.g., CDKN2A and CDKN2B) to induce low-grade superficial papillary bladder cancer, and that the same activated RTK/RAS/PI3K pathway collaborates with the deficiency of RB family proteins or that of the p53 pathway effectors to induce high-grade muscle-invasive bladder cancer. In another series of studies supported by a VA Merit Review award, the laboratory of the RCS demonstrated that pyruvate kinase 2 (PKM2), a key enzyme in anaerobic glycolysis or Warburg effect, is upregulated in most bladder cancers and plays a critical role in bladder cancer cell proliferation, and that genetic ablation of PKM2 markedly reduces bladder cancer growth in vitro and in vivo. Inhibition of PKM2 by RNAi or small molecules also greatly decreases the acquired resistance of bladder cancer cells to cisplatin. These and other data to be detailed in the proposal are highly significant in not only improving our understanding of the molecular bases of bladder cancer pathogenesis, but also offer practical insights into novel strategies for bladder cancer diagnostics and treatment. With respect to kidney stone, the laboratory of the RCS continued to make major progress in unraveling the role and mechanisms of action of Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP or uromodulin), the most abundant urinary protein in humans, in urinary tract defense against kidney stone formation. The deficiency of THP renders animal models more susceptible to intra-renal calcification, via increased urinary supersaturation, that strongly resembles the early stages of idiopathic stone formation in humans. Because THP deficiency is often observed in patients, such data will have major implications on kidney stone pathogenesis and prevention. In the past four and a half years, the RCS obtained a VA Merit Award, a multidisciplinary NIH Program Project (PO1) grant and an NIH RO1 grant; published 49 peer-reviewed papers; spearheaded multiple collaborative projects with VA and non-VA investigators; continued to actively train junior faculty members and postdoctoral fellows; provided important services to local and national VA, university affiliates and research community at large. These accomplishments set the stage for the RCS to continue and expand his contributions to the mission of VA and university affiliates in helping advance research, education, patient care, mentoring, services and interdisciplinary collaborations.

这项研究职业科学家（RCS）奖的更新申请旨在继续进行正在进行的研究