The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States has awarded a grant totalling $720,000 to Ellen J. Beswick, Ph.D.Beswick is an assistant professor at the Dpeartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and her research is entitled "Cytokine-Mediated Link Between Infection, Chronic Inflammation, and Cancer."
Beswick believes her research could contribute to fighting gastrointestinal cancers at a very early stage and perhaps contribute to developing better approaches to cancer treatments. She intends to uncover very early pathways in cancer that make cells begin to divide abnormally. Beswick's work is unique in that it looks at very early events of how chronic inflammation may induce aberrant cell growth.
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The Society has funded 44 researchers who have went on to win the Nobel Prize.
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