# Developmental Research Program

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · 2020 · $84,897

## Abstract

Developmental Research Program - SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The purpose of the Developmental Research Program (DRP) is to fund promising projects by investigators
whose current work may not focus exclusively on hepatocellular carcinoma, but who propose highly innovative
translational studies of hepatocellular carcinoma that could become full SPORE projects or compete successfully
for funding outside of the SPORE. The DRP provides a unique venue for making available significant financial
support, and for demonstrating active institutional support, through a program that is rapidly responsive to new
ideas or initiatives. Moreover, this program is rooted in a spirit of collaboration espoused by the SPORE
investigators, who have an extensive track-record of bringing investigators from other disciplines into
hepatocellular carcinoma research. The strength of the Developmental Research Program rests in its ability to
make available financial support needed to access all the critical expertise and resources within the entire
SPORE. This will allow us to develop collaborative, multi-investigator, multi-institutional research projects with the
support of innovative, investigator-initiated projects that have the potential to flourish into reliable and productive
translational research projects that make a path from basic and/or population research projects into research
focused on human clinical specimens/patient populations.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10024080
- **Project number:** 5P50CA217674-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** James C Yao
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $84,897
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-25 → 2024-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10024080

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10024080, Developmental Research Program (5P50CA217674-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10024080. Licensed CC0.

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