Action to Cure Kidney Cancer

Maria F. Czyzyk-Krzeska, MD, PhD of the University of Cincinnati, won a $932,919 three-year grant from the Defense Department's (DoD) Peer Review Medical Research Program to identify genes in kidney cancer oncogenesis. This grant, which commenced in early 2007, will run until early 2010, is the first grant ever awarded by DoD for kidney cancer research and is the result of a lobbying campaign by ACKC that requested a Congressional appropriation for kidney cancer research at the Department of Defense. We congratulate Dr. Czyzyk-Krzeska on her grant.