Milestones: VU professor wins major grant
December 22nd, 2009
David Carbone, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, cell and developmental biology and cancer biology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been awarded nearly a million dollars in federal stimulus funds to study lung cancer among minorities.
The research is with polymorphisms or genetic variations among minorities with non-small cell lung cancer.
Carbone and his colleagues plan to use the two-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to focus on African-Americans diagnosed with lung cancer.