May 2, 2012
Private donations allow Johnson Cancer 1xbet online games login Center to award more than half a million dollars to K-State faculty and students for 1xbet online games login and training
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Private donations are making a difference for cancer scientists at Kansas State University. And the director of the university's Johnson Cancer 1xbet online games login Center wants to find ways to advance their 1xbet online games login even more.
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In 2011-2012, the cancer 1xbet online games login center's competitive awards totaled 8,000. The Innovative Cancer 1xbet online games login Award program, the center's largest, provided nearly 0,000 to support investigations into such things as tumor suppression, pathogen susceptibility, a hormone-like growth factor involved in prostate cancer development and large animal model development for human cancer studies.
"We are grateful to have so many allies helping us conquer cancer in our time and pleased to redistribute 100 percent of their donations to our faculty and student researchers," Denell said. "Our dollars do make a difference and are often leveraged into large extramural grants. But we just can't currently meet all our scientists' funding needs, especially for equipment."
Denell and the cancer 1xbet online games login center's advisory council want to turn recent, growing enthusiasm for K-State cancer 1xbet online games login into greater financial capabilities to advance, along with the state of Kansas, to the forefront of the field.
University President Kirk Schulz sees great potential in the cancer 1xbet online games login center's work.
"With our groundbreaking stem cell and nanoscale technology, and cancer diagnosis and treatment patents on the horizon, K-State is making its mark in cancer 1xbet online games login and getting ever closer to becoming a top 50 public 1xbet online games login university," Schulz said.
K-State currently has 80 faculty researchers affiliated with the center, conducting multidisciplinary basic and translational cancer 1xbet online games login in 16 departments of five colleges. More information about the center is at cancer.k-state.edu.