# Developmental Research Program

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · 2021 · $74,398

## 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 ovarian cancer, but who propose highly
innovative translational studies of ovarian cancer 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 ovarian cancer research. The strength of the DRP 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. Over
the course of the previously-funded Ovarian SPORE grants since 2000, we have supported 48 DRPs.
Overall, 14 former recipients of DRPs have received peer-reviewed funding in ovarian cancer as PI, Co-
PI or Co-Investigator with eight as PIs (three DOD, two R01, one R21, one R03 and two CPRIT). Two
recipients have been awarded OCRF funds (one Multi-Investigator Award and one Liz Tilberis Scholar).
More recently, four recipients have been awarded six peer-reviewed ovarian cancer grants as PI (three
R01, one R21, two CPRIT) and one Liz Tilberis Scholar award from the OCRF. Overall, recipients have
published 281 peer-reviewed publications regarding ovarian cancer (38 specific to their DRP project)
since receiving a DRP award. Additionally, six former awardees have participated in full SPORE projects
after completing a DRP project.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10251119
- **Project number:** 5P50CA217685-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** ANIL K SOOD
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $74,398
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-22 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10251119

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10251119, Developmental Research Program (5P50CA217685-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10251119. Licensed CC0.

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