On July 25, 2019 M2Gen, a health informatics solutions company focused on accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of precision medicine, reported a $3 million donation to fund seven team science research projects as part of the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN) New Oncologic Visionary Awards (NOVA) program (Press release, M2Gen, JUL 25, 2019, View Source [SID1234537761]). Each project will bring together researchers from a variety of leading cancer centers around the country, including ORIEN’s founding members, Moffitt Cancer Center and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, to address some of cancer’s toughest questions. Each of the awarded projects are led by ORIEN Member institutions, an alliance of key oncology stakeholders dedicated to breaking down the silos that can inhibit discovery and progress. The ORIEN NOVA program was designed to advance research by encouraging collaborative multidisciplinary team science across the ORIEN members, allowing researchers to share information and expertise, to ultimately improve patient care.

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"Cancer is a complicated disease, and no single entity can solve it alone – innovative partnerships and access to data are the keys to answering cancer’s toughest questions," said William S. Dalton, PhD, MD, Executive Chair of M2Gen. "We’ve initiated the ORIEN NOVA program to give researchers and physician scientists the opportunity to access all of the resources of ORIEN’s research alliance, breaking down barriers between institutions to enable rapid learning and accelerate research efforts and discovery to bring new treatments to patients. Together with the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, we have setup the ORIEN Foundation in March of this year to support future NOVA awards which will help facilitate ongoing research collaborations across ORIEN members for years to come."

More than 60 proposals were received from ORIEN cancer center faculty across the United States. Three ORIEN Avatar NOVA grants totaling $2 million and four ORIEN Investigator Initiated Proposal (IIP) NOVA grants totaling $1 million were selected after a scientific, peer-review of the proposed projects. Selected projects included those that demonstrated the potential for high-impact cancer research, as well as utilization of new data analytics and data acquisition tools. To view the full list of ORIEN Member recipients, please click here ORIEN NOVA.

"We are honored that our research project, led by Dr. Donghai Dai, was selected for the ORIEN NOVA grant, and grateful to M2Gen for their continued efforts to support collaborative research in the oncology field," said George Weiner, MD, Director of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. "We are eager to address the development of intra-tumor driver mutation prevalence and this funding gives us a runway to accelerate this valuable work."

"The future of science lies in collaboration and our team is thrilled to work alongside seven other leading cancer centers to advance Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma research as a result of ORIEN’s NOVA grant program," said Walter Curran Jr., MD, Executive Director of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

Selected research projects were reviewed, scored and chosen by a scientific review panel consisting of ORIEN scientists and external researchers from cancer centers across the country.

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