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LA JOLLA\u2014Salk Professor Thomas Albright<\/a> has been awarded $1 million and Assistant Professor Edward Stites<\/a> awarded $500,000 by The Conrad Prebys Foundation as part of its inaugural round of grants. The funding will support Albright\u2019s project looking at how our visual sense changes as we age or gain experience at new visual tasks, and Stites\u2019 project investigating how specific FDA-approved drugs function against three types of melanoma mutations, which drive approximately 80 percent of melanomas. <\/p>\n

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Thomas Albright and Edward Stites<\/p>\n

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In total, The Conrad Prebys Foundation allocated $78 million in grants to fund 121 projects. Salk joins a long list of recipients, which included other prominent San Diego institutions such as Rady Children\u2019s Hospital, Sharp HealthCare, KPBS, Scripps Research, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Mingei International Museum, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are incredibly grateful to The Conrad Prebys Foundation for including Salk in its inaugural grant cycle,\u201d says Salk President and Professor Rusty Gage. \u201cConrad, who was a Salk Trustee, maintains a special legacy at the Institute due to his overwhelming generosity over the years. These new grants will help our scientists reach critical understandings that might have considerable benefits for human health in the future.\u201d <\/p>\n

Professor Thomas Albright, director of Salk\u2019s Vision Center Laboratory and Conrad T. Prebys Chair in Vision Research, will use novel approaches to understand how experience and age affect the brain’s abilities\u2014in visual sensation, perception and decision-making\u2014to adapt. His team will investigate how the visual system functions to improve performance on demanding visual tasks and decisions, as well as and how to reverse or mitigate impairments of visual function that are associated with aging.<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor Edward Stites, who is a physician-scientist and the Hearst Foundation Developmental Chair, combines mathematical and computational approaches with experimental cancer biology to unravel the relationships between cancer-causing mutations and the response to treatment. Despite personalized cancer medication being within reach, physicians and scientists still aren\u2019t able to use specific genomic data to predict which cancer drugs will provide the biggest benefit for an individual patient. In 2019, the Stites lab discovered the mechanism of why some patients with a certain gene mutation benefit from a chemotherapy drug called cetuximab. Now his lab is applying their computational and experimental approach to three common forms of melanoma, each of which is caused by a different mutation within the biological system that causes cancer growth.<\/p>\n

According to The Conrad Prebys Foundation, its selection process for the grants came at a unique time in history, and the awarded applicants reflect a balance between focus areas of personal interest to Conrad Prebys\u2014including visual and performing arts, higher education, medical research, healthcare, youth development and animal conservation\u2014and the urgent needs of these communities, which have been upended due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe past year has highlighted the imperative behind-the-scenes work that researchers are conducting to ensure we have the insights, treatments and medicine we need to keep communities healthy,\u201d says Erin Decker, director of grantmaking at The Conrad Prebys Foundation. \u201cThe foundation is honored to have a role in ensuring these meaningful research projects have the resources needed to fuel future solutions in medical care.\u201d <\/p>\n

About The Conrad Prebys Foundation<\/strong>
\nThe Conrad Prebys Foundation was established by real estate entrepreneur Conrad Prebys to perpetuate his commitment to philanthropic endeavors. The Conrad Prebys Foundation inspires transformational change by funding projects in alignment with Conrad Prebys\u2019 legacy interests and continuing his efforts that spark meaningful advancement in our communities. 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