| LEXINGTON, KY
(Oct. 17, 2001) -- Twenty researchers from the University of
Kentucky and the University of Louisville received awards from
Gov. Paul Patton today for lung cancer research. The $3.8 million
comes from the Tobacco Settlement money.
The grants are part of
the Lung Cancer Research Project that Gov. Patton and lawmakers
created in the 2000 General Assembly to combined efforts of UK and
U of L to become national leaders in lung cancer basic research,
early detection, diagnosis and treatment.
The Lung Cancer
Research Project is a 20-year initiative that was designed to
receive 20 percent of all moneys in the Tobacco Master Settlement
Agreement for this collaborative partnership between the two
universities.
The project's
nine-member board helped select the 20 grant recipients from a
total of 54 initial requests.
Donald Miller, M.D.,
director of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University
of Louisville, and Alfred Cohen, M.D., director of the Markey
Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky, will help oversee the
direction of the 20 grants, which were funded for two years.
UK researchers who
received grants and their studies include:
Mansoor Ahmed
- TGF-beta signaling and radiation response in lung
carcinoma
Douglas A. Andres
- Novel ras-related GTPase in lung cancer
Stephen A. Brown
- Radioprotective agents in NSCLC therapy
Ramesh C. Gupta
- Etiology and prevention of lung cancer: Biomarker development in
clinical studies
Louis B. Hersh
- A gene therapeutic approach for the treatment of lung cancer
Edward Hirschowitz -
Therapeutic investigation of dendritic cell vaccines in NSCLC
Marcos A. Oliveira
- A novel chemo-radio sensitizing target: PARP-2 activation domain
William St. Clair -
Novel anticancer agents to promote the efficacy of
contemporary or GRID radiation therapy for treatment of lung
cancer
H. Peter Spielman
- Pre-clinical studies of novel ras function inhibitors to treat
lung cancer
John R. Yannelli
- Use of dendritic cells to present non-small cell lung cancer
associated antigens
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