VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center was recently awarded a $2.7 million Worta McCaskill-Stevens K12 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The five-year grant will allow Massey to mentor promising, multidisciplinary, early-stage clinical investigators in the conception, development, and implementation of innovative cancer prevention and control studies designed to optimize participation by cancer survivors and individuals most at risk for cancer throughout Virginia.
“We are proud to receive the Worta McCaskill-Stevens K12 grant,” said Oxana Palesh, Ph.D., M.P.H. , co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Massey and co-principal investigator on the grant with Jessica LaRose, Ph.D., F.S.B.M. , a Cancer Prevention and Control research program member at Massey and professor and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the VCU School of Public Health, and Patrick Nana-Sinkam, M.D. , the Linda Grandis Blatt Endowed Chair in Cancer Research, Cancer Prevention and Control research program member at Massey and VCU Health Associate Vice President for Clinical and Translational research. “This grant will allow us to offer an opportunity for clinician scientists to learn, train and grow at Massey to continue to provide better cancer outcomes for all Virginians.”
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About the Worta McCaskill-Stevens K12 grant
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