Two Boston doctors win cancer grants
Two Boston researchers are among five young doctor-scientists receiving three-year, $450,000 grants to study cancer therapies. The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation pairs clinical investigators with mentors to encourage physicians to translate scientific discoveries into treatments.
Dr. Andrew T. Chan of Massachusetts General Hospital is testing new ways to detect colorectal cancer through methods that may help in developing ways to treat and prevent the cancer. He will work with mentors Dr. Charles S. Fuchs and Dr. Ralph Weissleder at Mass. General.
Dr. Rachael A. Clark of Brigham and Women’s Hospital is studying how the immune system controls squamous cell carcinomas and how to develop new treatments for this form of skin cancer. Her mentor is Dr. Thomas S. Kupper of the Brigham.
The other winners are Dr. Ronald J. Buckanovich of the University of Michigan, ovarian cancer; Dr. Vassiliki Karantza-Wadsworth of the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, breast cancer; and Dr. Elahe A. Mostaghel of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, prostate cancer.
The foundation, supported by Eli Lilly and Co., Siemens Medical Solutions, Novartis, and Genentech, has funded 44 physician-scientists since 2000.
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