For Immediate Release
October 4, 2007

BUFFALO, NY – The National Cancer Institute has awarded grants totaling $4,044,310 to six members of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute faculty.

• Peter Demant, MD, PhD, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, a five-year, $1,581,812 grant to study the “Relationship of Colon and Lung Cancer Susceptibility Genes”
• Elizabeth Repasky, PhD, and Bonnie Hylander, PhD, Department of Immunology, a two-year, $160,262 grant to study “Predicting Response of Pancreatic Tumors to Therapy”
• Hans Minderman, PhD, Department of Flow and Imaging Cytometry, a two-year $303,301 grant to examine the “Clinical Application of Multispectral Imaging Flow Cytometry”
• Hyung Lae Kim, Department of Urologic Oncology, a five-year, $714,236 grant to investigate “Heat Shock Protein Vaccine Targeting Carbonic Anhydrase”
• Xiang-Yang Wang, PhD, Department of Cell Stress Biology, a five-year, $1,284,699 grant to study “Scavenger Receptor-A and Immune Regulation”

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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