Mitchell Grants Awarded for Cancer Research
Posted on May 26, 2015
Three teams of 天美影视传媒 researchers, all working in collaboration with Mitchell Cancer Institute researchers, have been awarded grants by the Abraham A. Mitchell Cancer Research Fund.
The grants are part of an ongoing effort to link researchers at the University of South Alabama and Mitchell Cancer Institute with the longer established cancer research programs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Awards for 2015 were presented to:
- Dr. Glen Borchert, an assistant professor in the USA department of biology, for his work on 鈥淒iscovery and Characterization of MicroRNAs with Undescribed Roles in Breast Cancer Pathology.鈥 Borchert is collaborating with Dr. Yaguang Xi, an MCI faculty member.
- Dr. Luda Rachek, an assistant professor in the USA College of Medicine department of pharmacology, for a project on 鈥淭argeting TAT-DNA repair enzymes into mitochondria as a novel therapeutic strategy for breast cancer progression.鈥 Rachek is working in collaboration with Dr. Ming Tan, an MCI faculty member.
- Dr. Mark Taylor, an associate professor in the USA College of Medicine department of physiology and cell biology, for his work on 鈥淐a2+ Signal Patterning in Cancer.鈥 Taylor works in collaboration with Dr. Garry Piazza from MCI and Dr. Lalita Shevde-Samant from UAB.
Abraham Mitchell created the fund with a $1 million gift to the University, hoping to encourage cancer-related and cancer-relevant research by scientists in many different University departments.
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