ASU’s Cancer Research Center Awarded Grants Totaling $200,000

ASU’s Cancer Research Center Awarded Grants Totaling $200,000

Pilot grants totalling $200,000 have been given to two professors in the Cancer Research Center (CRC) at Alabama State University.

Dr Manoj Mishra, the director and founder of the University’s Cancer Research Center, and his colleague, Dr Parul Dubey, shared that they had been offered grants from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama (BCRFA or Foundation).

“ASU’s Cancer Research Center is both gratified and thankful to the BCRFA for awarding the pilot grants to myself and Dr. Dubey which will greatly aid us in our two research projects that concentrate on breast cancer,” stated Dr. Mishra. “ASU’s Center continues to gain recognition, attention and funding to do its best to learn more about this disease, which we hope will contribute to one day putting an end to it.”

The two grants will be awarded $50,000 in increments over two years. Both grants focus on breast cancer but on different avenues of research.

More than $1.1 million was awarded by the BCRFA to support  22 unique projects at seven established research institutions in Alabama. The funding is part of the Foundation’s goal of establishing breast cancer research that saves lives.

Aside from Alabama State University, BCRFA awarded research grants to Auburn University, Huntsville’s HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Tuskegee University, O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, The University of Alabama, and Mitchell Cancer Institute at the University of South Alabama.