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Physicians receive research grants
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The American Association for Cancer Research and Kure It announced that William Y. Kim, MD, and James W. Mier, MD, each received an AACR-Kure It Grant for Kidney Cancer Research.
Kim, assistant professor in the departments of medicine and genetics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and Mier, associate professor at Harvard Medical School in the division of hematology and oncology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, each will receive $250,000 during the 2-year grant term.
The grants provide support for innovative translational kidney cancer research designed to improve the survival and quality of life of patients with kidney cancer and, in turn, lead to individualized therapeutic options for the treatment or development of new therapies.
Kim’s research aims to personalize kinase therapy based on the patient’s kidney tumor. Mier’s research will explore the mechanism by which HDM2 antagonists and VEGF-targeted drugs act together to block tumor angiogenesis and induce disease regression in renal cell carcinomas.