Awards, Honors and News

BCAN grant activated (7/1/14 - 8/31/15).
NIH R00 activated (7/1/14 - 8/31/15).
Started assistant professor at UCSD.
Selected in IIT JEE 1996
Ranked 4th in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur (2000)
Fujitsu scholarship (2002) and Integrative cancer biology program scholarship (2005)
Siebel Fellowship from Siebel Stem Cell Institute and the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation (2009-2011)
DOD Prostate Cancer Training Award ($115K, 08/15/2010-08/14/2012)
NIH Pathway to Independence Award - K99/R00 ($1M, 08/01/2011-07/31/2016)
AACR Scholar-In-Training Award (01/19/2011)
Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Young Investigator Award ($100K, 07/15/2013-07/14/2015)

Funding Agencies (Grant Support)

Department Of Defense $115,000
Novel Prostate Cancer Pathway Modeling using Boolean Implication

1K99CA15167301 (Sahoo, Debashis - Project 47597) 07/01/2011-06/31/2016 9.0 calendar
National Institutes of Health $ 1,053,665
Application of Boolean networks to discover stem and progenitor cells

Renee A. Reijo Pera (PI) SPO #52439 07/01/2011-05/31/2014 1.2 calendar
CIRM (California Institute for Regenerative Medicine) $300,000
Correlated time-lapse imaging and single cell molecular analysis of human embryo development
Role: Collaborator, Overlap: 1K99CA15167301

Irving L. Weissman (PI) SPO #46470 09/30/2009-06/30/2016 1.2 calendar
National Institute of Health (NIH) $247,595
Interrogation of individual cells to identify progenitors and their niches.
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow, Overlap: 1K99CA15167301

Irving L. Weissman (PI) SPO #52488 05/15/2012-02/29/2016 1.2 calendar
National Institute of Health (NIH) $1,382,754.00
A search for genes that regulate allogeneic stem cell competition.
Role: Co-investigator, Overlap: 1K99CA15167301

Irving L. Weissman (PI) SPO #47945 09/01/2010-05/31/2015 1.2 calendar
National Institute of Health (NIH) $1,533,419.00
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of aging and regeneration in colonial chordate
Role: Collaborator, Overlap: 1K99CA15167301

Samuel Cheshier (PI) SPO #51919 07/01/2011-09/30/2012 1.2 calendar
2012 American Brain Tumor Association Discovery Award (ABTA) $50,000
Utilization of a Novel Computational Approach- Mining of Developmentally Regulated Genes to
Discover New Developmental Hierarchies within Brain Tumor Stem Cells and Progenitors
Role: Collaborator, Overlap: 1K99CA15167301

Samuel Cheshier (PI) SPO #52807 07/01/2011-08/30/2012 1.2 calendar
2012 St. Baldrick Foundation Research Grant $100,000
Identification of Lineage Hierarchy in Development of Human Medulloblastoma and Diffuse
Intrinsic Pontine Glioma using a systematic and functional identification of developmentally
regulated genes.
Role: Collaborator, Overlap: 1K99CA15167301

Debashis Sahoo (PI) 1149282-209-DHALS 9/01/2012-8/31/2013 1.2 calendar
2012 Developmental Cancer Research Award (DCRA) $50,000
Identifying New Prostate Cancer Therapeutic Targets In The Metastatic Bone Marrow Niche.
Role: Principal investigator, Overlap: 1K99CA15167301

Debashis Sahoo (PI) SPO #111087 07/15/2013-07/14/2015 1.2 calendar
2013 Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Young Investigator Award (BCAN) $100,000
High resolution molecular analysis of CD47-mediated immune escape in bladder cancer.
Role: Principal investigator, Overlap: 1K99CA1516730