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Fox Chase Cancer Center researcher receives American Cancer Society grant
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American Cancer Society’s Pennsylvania/New Jersey Pay-If Research Council has awarded Jaye Gardiner, PhD, a $163,500 grant to support research into improving treatment options for patients with pancreatic cancer.
Gardiner serves as a postdoctoral research associate in the Edna Cukierman laboratory of Fox Chase Cancer Center. Her research aims to understand how the cancer cell microenvironment influences whether a tumor will grow, spread or respond to treatment. Gardiner recently won the Science Communication Prize from the Mindlin Foundation, and she was a semifinalist for the HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Award.
The newly developed American Cancer Society Pennsylvania/New Jersey Pay-If Research Council aims to spread visibility and help raise funds to support pay-if research grants with a goal of dramatically reducing unnecessary cancer suffering and death.
“We are excited by the possibilities that Dr. Gardiner’s research presents,” Arnold Baskies, MD, the Pennsylvania/New Jersey Pay-If Research Council co-chair and American Cancer Society past chairman of the National Board of Directors, said in a press release. “This year, over 55,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and over 44,000 will die. This is incredibly important work, as it will help us to understand the underlying cause of pancreatic cancer.”