For Immediate Release
September 19, 2007

BUFFALO, NY – Four faculty members at Roswell Park Cancer Institute have been awarded grants totaling $2,136,589.

• Susan McCann, PhD, RD, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, a three-year, $723,030 grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine for the study of  “Flaxseed vs Aromatase Inhibitors: Breast Tumor Characteristics and Prognosis”

• Yan Dong, PhD, Department of Chemoprevention, a four-year, $707,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to investigate the “Androgen Signaling Axis as Targets of Selenium Action.”

• Shannon Morey, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, a three-year, $99,431 grant from the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Program for the “Examination of the Role of Epigenetic Changes in Prostate.”
• Mohamed Khan, MD, PhD, departments of Radiation Medicine and Cell Stress Biology, a three-year, $607,128 grant from the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Program to study “Peptide-Targeted Radioactive Composite Nanodevices.”

Roswell Park Cancer Institute, founded in 1898, is the nation’s first cancer research, treatment and education center and is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in Upstate New York. RPCI is a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation’s leading cancer centers. Roswell Park has affiliate sites and collaborative programs in New York, Pennsylvania, and in China. For more information, visit RPCI’s website at http://www.roswellpark.org, call 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724) or email askrpci@rpswellpark.org.

 

 

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