Issue: October 1, 2012
October 01, 2012
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Professors receive grants from NCI
Issue: October 1, 2012
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Cynthia Sears
Cynthia Sears, MD,
and Peter C. Searson, PhD, both professors at Johns Hopkins University, were among the first grant recipients in the NCI-funded “Provocative Questions” project.Grant recipients will try to answer one of 24 questions — solicited from the research community — that address neglected or unsolved areas of cancer research.
Peter S. Searson
Sears will receive $236,480 to examine how and why certain cancers may be caused by infections. She previously linked some colon cancers to common diarrheal bacteria, and her research will further explore how these and other microbes may cause colon cancer.
Searson will receive $316,513 to develop a new method to study cancer metastasis. He has proposed a device with an artificial blood vessel and other cellular components. The approach could replicate processes that occur in metastasis and provide a testing ground for experiments.