Cancer Scientist Receives $200,000 Grant Award for Asbestos and Mesothelioma Research

In January 2009, it was announced that a scientist in the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii's Thoracic Oncology Program had received two grant awards totaling $220,000.  Haining Yang, MD, PhD was one of five recipients of a two-year $100,000 grant from the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (MARF). Dr. Yang intends to use the grant funding to pursue a study of the mechanism of asbestos and mesothelioma in order to develop effective prevention and therapeutic interventions.

Yang has also been granted $120,000 from the Hawaii Community Foundation's Leahi Fund. The grant will support her research, a part of which will focus on an early detection study of mesothelioma in targeted villages in Turkey where there are high incidence rates of the disease.

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