Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Researchers Awarded Nearly $2.5M to Examine Ways to Block Cancer Cell Growth
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 08:00
in Health & Medicine
A pair of researchers at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has been awarded nearly $2.5 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health to further study in their respective laboratories. X.F. Steven Zheng, PhD, was awarded $1.65 million to examine an activating mechanism of the mTOR protein, which is a central controller of cell growth and metabolism. Darren R. Carpizo, MD, PhD, was awarded nearly $800,000 to further explore the effects of a compound identified in Dr. Carpizo's laboratory found to restore tumor suppressor function of a mutated p53 gene in cancer cells.