NCI awards $3.6 million to develop early warning cancer detection systems and therapy response monitors - as part of Cancer Nanotechnology Center programs
Funding Announcement: October, 2005 Funding Amount: $3.6 million to start research Contract Time Frame: 5 years, expected to total $18 million over that period Awarded By: National Cancer Institute Awarded: Jim Heath, the Elizabeth Gilloon Professor and professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology
Jim Heath to direct Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center at Caltech (NSBCC).
Project Focus: Development of tools used in early detection of cancer
Project Details: Project is a part of the National Institutes of Health's program to establish seven Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNEs).
Project to make use of microfluidic and nanotechnology chips for the analysis of cancer. Serum analysis is also a focus. The program intends to develop a method that is able to detect cancer and measure the therapeutic response to cancer thorough the analysis serum based proteins.
Program also plans to identify biomarkers that can be used to determine the health of specific organs.
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