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Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program

Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project - Funding (Past Initiative)

Investigator Project Title Institution Total Award
Estimate
(All project periods
within Fiscal Years 1993-2007)
Marilie Gammon, PhD Breast Cancer and the Environment on Long Island (Columbia case-control study) Columbia University/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * $7,895,000
Karen Antman, MD Breast Cancer on Long Island:
Pilot research for Dr. Gammon's initial study
Columbia University 165,000
Marilie Gammon, PhD Breast Cancer and the Environment on Long Island Follow-up Study University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1,235,000
Cristina Leske, MD EMF & Breast Cancer on Long Island Stony Brook University 2,569,000
Steven Stellman, PhD Epidemiology of Breast Cancer American Health Foundation 2,384,000
Steven Stellman, PhD Serum Organochlorine Compounds and Breast Cancer on Long Island American Health Foundation 81,000
Tongzhang Zheng, MD Organochlorine Compounds and Risk of Breast Cancer Yale University 911,000
Dorothy Lane, MD, MPH Reducing Barriers to Use of Breast Cancer Screening Stony Brook University 2,680,000
Ruby Senie, PhD Metropolitan New York Registry of Breast Cancer Families Columbia University 4,803,000
Eliot Rosen, MD, PhD Regulation of Scatter Factor Expression in Breast Cancer Long Island Jewish Medical Center 289,000
Jo Freudenheim, PhD (O'Leary) Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Breast Cancer University of Buffalo 35,000
Leon Bradlow, PhD Breast Cancer Risk and Inducibility of P450s Strang Cancer Research Laboratory 79,000
Michael Wigler, PhD RDA Analysis of Breast Cancer Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 119,000
  Extramural Research Program
Total Estimate
$23,245,000
 
Interagency Agreement (1994-1995) Feasibility of a Geographic Information System Brookhaven National Laboratory 543,000
Contracts (1999-2007) Geographic Information System for Long Island AverStar, Inc./Titan Systems/L3 Titan Communication** 7,047,000
Contract (2007-Present) Geographic Information System for Long Island Information Management System, Inc. (IMS) Funding through an NCI internal support contract
  Total Estimate $30,835,000

* Investigator relocated to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999.

** Funding began in May 1999 through a series of contracts with the above companies through September 2007. (Name changes were due to company mergers.) Beginning in September 2007, funding to maintain the LI GIS continues through Information Management Services, Inc. (IMS), which is one of NCI's internal support services contactors.