The recipients of the 2007 IMF Research Grant awards were announcedat the gathering of the Foundation’s Scientific Advisors, held at the48th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in Orlando, Florida.

	2007 Senior Grant Recipient	Title of Senior Research Project
	William Matsui, M.D. School of Medicine Oncology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland USA	"Hedgehog Signaling in Myeloma Cancer Stem Cells"
	2007 Junior Grant Recipients	Titles of Senior Research Projects
	Roberto Bellucci, Ph.D. Dana Farber Cancer Institute Medical Oncology Boston, Massachusetts USA	"Genetic Screening For Myeloma Cell Susceptibility to NK cell mediated lysis using shRNA libraries"
	Claire Edwards, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee USA	"Effects of VELCADE on the protein expression profile at the myeloma -bone interface in vivo"
	Silvia Ling, M.D. Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology Newton, NSW Australia	"Role of XBP-1 in the drug resistance of multiple myeloma"
	Nicola Camp, Ph.D. University of Utah Biomedical Informatics Salt Lake City, Utah USA	"The Familiality of Multiple Myeloma and Related Phenotypes"
	Akira Sakai Hiroshima University Hiroshima, Japan	"Analysis of the aspects induced by cyclin D1 overexpression in myeloma cells leads to a new stratery of treatment of multiple myeloma"