The Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio is getting big financial boost from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, including $6 million for the recruitment of a top physician-scientist.
Dr. David Gius, a breast cancer and radiation oncology researcher, is leaving the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University and relocating to UT Health San Antonio with some of his staff.
Gius will serve as the new associate cancer center director for translational research, which means he will help move scientific discoveries from the lab to consumers.
“He adds to our growing cadre of breast cancer experts and builds on our growing efforts to expand research in radiation oncology,” said Dr. Ruben Mesa, director of the Mays Cancer Center.
Mesa said the grants came on the heels of the cancer center receiving a five-year renewal of its National Cancer Institute designation, which brings an additional $10 million to the center.
The state’s cancer institute, called CPRIT, gave the San Antonio-based cancer center five grants on Aug. 19 totaling $10.3 million.
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A recruitment grant of $2 million will allow Peng Zhao, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, to join the medical school’s department of biochemistry and structural biology. Zhao studies a condition called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and its progression to liver cancer.
Dmitri Ivanov, associate professor of biochemistry and structural biology, will get nearly $1.2 million to continue identifying and optimizing small molecules for drug development for children and adolescent cancer patients.
Dr. Mingjiang Xu, a professor of molecular medicine was awarded $900,000 to study an RNA molecule called HOTTIP and its role in causing leukemia.
Luiz Penalva, a professor of cell systems and anatomy and an investigator at the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, will receive a High-Impact/High-Risk Award of $249,968 for his work on the RNA-binding protein SERBP1.
The grants were among 62 awards totaling over $114 million given by the state agency.
In addition to the cancer center grants, researcher Hyoung-gon Lee of University of Texas at San Antonio received a CPRIT High-Impact/High-Risk Award for $250,000.
Lee is studying chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, which causes cancer patients to experience numbness, balance problems or pain.
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