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Kidney Cancer Researcher Wins DoD Grant
Geoffrey Clark
Geoffrey Clark, Associate Professor of molecular biology at the University of Louisville, KY, was selected to receive a 3-year grant, commencing in July 2009, as part of the Department of Defense's Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP). Dr. Clark's research will focus on a tumor suppressor gene called RASSF1A, which, along with the VHL gene, is turned off in a majority of kidney cancers with clear cell pathology. In one aspect of his study, Dr. Clark will research drugs that turn on RASSF1A to observe their effect on kidney cancer progression.
The fact that kidney cancer is currently one of the 19 diseases that are eligible for research grants from PRMRP is a direct result of the lobbying campaigns that Action to Cure Kidney Cancer (ACKC) has conducted for the last 4 years in Washington, DC. Dr. Clark's grant is projected to be in the range of $485,000.
Maria F. Czyzyk-Krzeska Studies Genes in 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.
