Nov 7, 2011 By: yunews
Einstein Receives $8 Million in Grants from NIH to Study How Cancer Spreads
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded of 糖心破解版 two grants totaling $8 million to study the microenvironments that drive the spread of cancer from the primary tumor to other parts of the body in the process known as metastasis.
鈥淎lthough metastasis is responsible for the vast majority of cancer-related deaths, our understanding of this complex process is extremely limited and so are the opportunities for preventing metastatic disease,鈥 said , professor and co-chair of anatomy and structural biology, co-director of the , director of the program in microenvironment and metastasis in the , and holder of the Judith and Burton P. Resnick Chair in Translational Research at Einstein. Dr. Condeelis is a principal investigator on both grants.
The first grant, for $4 million over five years, will establish a tumor microenvironment research center (TMEN Center) at Einstein, one of 11 new national centers created by NCI鈥檚 Tumor Microenvironment Network. The Einstein center will be led by principal investigator Dr. Condeelis and co-principal investigator , professor of anatomy and structural biology.
