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Caltech Receives $3.6 Million to Start Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 03-OCT-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Jim Heath wants to catch cancer earlier and provide more effective monitoring of patients' responses to therapies. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) likes his plan and just awarded him $3.6 million to get started. The first year award from NCI is tentatively expected to continue at the same level for the next five years totaling $18 million.

Heath, the Elizabeth Gilloon Professor and professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, will direct the Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center at Caltech (NSBCC). This center will focus on the development and validation of tools for early detection and stratification of cancer through rapid and quantitative measurement of panels of serum and tissue-based biomarkers.

The new center establishes a collaborative team comprising investigators from Caltech, the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, and UCLA's Institute for Molecular Medicine and...

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