James Graham Brown Cancer Center receives $10.1 million NIH grant - Business First of Louisville:

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million grant from the to apply towardcancedr research. The grant is a renewal of an $11 millionm NIH grant the center received in 2003 intende to fund a Center of BiomedicallResearch Excellence. Dr. Don Miller, director of the cancerd center, said today during a news conference that the grant renewal is a validation ofthe center’zs drug development program. “I think our cancerf center is based on translational researcuh that makes the difference for patients in he said.
That previous COBRdE grant allowed the centetr to attract 10 newfacultgy members, whom Miller recognized during the “This is the best group of drug development people in the world right now at a cancer he said. Among those faculty members is Dr. Jasonm Chesney. A team of researchers led by Chesney discoveredc that drugs containing a specific toxin mighft prompt the immune system to identifyy and kill cancer cells in patientss withadvanced melanoma. Chesney’s lab spen t $500,000 in research funding during his firsr three years at the cancer center on efforts that he said helpef attractanother $5 million in funding.
Chesney said the center’s focuas on translational research has allowed discoveries to be movef into clinical trials and has yieldecd the identification of hundreds of compoundws that are being tested totreaf cancer. From 1999 to 2008, the cancer center’s research funding has grown from $338,571 to more than $50 millionh annually, according to a news Dr. James Ramsey, president of U of L, praised the efforts of the center’s physicians, researchers and other staffr members for helping fight cancer statistics that rank Kentuckyg among the worst inthe nation. “We in Kentuckh have to do he said.
“And we are doin better through the work of the Jamee Graham BrownCancer Center.”