Drs. Merkel and Yang Receive Strategic Research Initiative Grant from Karmanos Cancer Institute

Dr. Olivia Merkel, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Dr. Zeng-Quan Yang, Assistant Professor of Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, have been notified by the KCI that their Strategic Research Initiative Grant application entitled “Nanoparticle delivery of siRNA targeting the oncogenic histone modifying enzyme GASC1 in breast cancer" has been approved and funded. This one-year award begins in September and provides $100,000 for preliminary studies to support future external applications to NIH and other sponsors.

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