A colon cancer researcher from Johns Hopkins University has been awarded a $792,000 grant from the American Cancer Society.
Nilofer Azad, MD – a member of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and JHU assistant professor of Oncology – will use the four-year grant to study personalized therapies for individual colorectal cancer patients.
"This project plans to use the epigenetic abnormalities we know to be present in colorectal cancer in order to predict sensitivity to new classes of traditional and targeted drugs for subgroups of colorectal cancer patients, in a personalized medicine approach," says Dr. Azad.
The American Cancer Society is awarding more than$11.2 million in cancer research grants to Maryland institutions, including Mercy Medical Center, theUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore, the University of Maryland, College Park, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Johns Hopkins University. The grants will takeeffect on June 1.
May is National Cancer Research Awareness Month. The American Cancer Society is the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States. For more information, call1-800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org.
