Perelman School of Medicine gets $7.5M for breast cancer detection research

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has received $7.5 million from the National Cancer Institute to establish a breast cancer screening center.The Penn Center for Innovation in Personalized Breast Cancer Screening will look at emerging methods of breast cancer detection. The team, led by Dr. Katrina Armstrong, chief of the division [...]

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Penn to share $8 million grant for esophageal cancer research

A research group at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania will share a nearly $8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute with the Mayo Clinic and Columbia University to establish a translational research network to investigate the causes of Barrett’s esophagus, a condition that can be a precursor to esophageal [...]

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