ARRA Funding Supports microRNA Research

from – RNAi News

NIH has awarded millions to support microRNA research under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  Two of the largest grants went to Dr. Sohail Tavazoie at the Rockefeller University and Dr. Carlo Croce at the Ohio State University.  Tavazoie studies miRNAs that can be used to predict how a cancer patient will respond to chemotherapy, focusing on colorectal cancer, and Croce studies how the loss of one specific miRNA can be used to predict how a patient will repond to demethylating agents. (read more)

Related posts:

1. Grant Money Supporting microRNA Research
2. Yale spinout 3PrimiR pulls in $2M in funding
3. microRNAs Inform Cancer Research
4. MiraDx Highlights Breakthrough Publication Describing a Marker for Resistance to Platinum Treatment in Ovarian Cancer
5. New Study in PNAS Links Inflammation and Cancer

Tagged as: cancer, chemotherapy, colorectal cancer, Croce, funding, grants, Ohio State University, Rockefeller University, Tavazoie