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Fighting Cancer at Alabama State University Gets Over a Quarter Million Dollars From Fed. Grant (1473 hits)

ASU is awarded a collaborative prostate cancer research program between ASU & University of North Texas

Alabama State University has received over $285,000 from the U.S. Department of Defense to help fund a collaborative initiative between ASU and the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC).

The grant is titled “Diversifying Biomedical Researchers in Prostate Cancer through Academic Affiliations between UNTHSC and Alabama State University.”

ASU's nationally acclaimed cancer researcher, Dr. Manoj Mishra, director of Cancer Biology Research & Training at the University, will serve as co-investigator of the project and faculty advisor. This new grant compliments Alabama State University's pre-existing cancer research partnership with the University of Alabama - Birmingham.

“This award will allow four ASU students from biomedical disciplines to get summer training at UNTHSC in the area of prostate cancer research,” said Mishra. “The grant will also help to build collaborative partnerships with scientists from UNTHSC, with a long-term goal of training underrepresented students and a focus on finding ways to eliminate health disparity in prostate cancer in the African-American population.”

The four ASU students selected for the program are: Abubakar Kaba, Natalie White, Jala Redmon and Brett Barlow.

“This grant is a perfect example of collaborative teamwork and has potential to change the dynamics of research training of underrepresented students at ASU and UNTHSC,” said Mishra. “This award is going to put ASU on the global map of cancer research and training, and represents another step forward toward strengthening the cancer biology research and training program at ASU that will attract students and faculty from around the world.”