Hopkins researchers nab $8M to study new cancer treatments

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Johns Hopkins Medicine? ? Johns Hopkins Medicine Latest from The Business Journals Johns Hopkins Medicine to help treat patients in KuwaitJohns Hopkins Medicine to help treat patients in KuwaitWill new CEO accelerate Hopkins' pace in D.C.? Follow this company has received more than $8 million to begin researching a faster way to speed development of early diagnostic tests and new treatments for breast, prostate and other cancers.

The five-year grant was made through the U.S. National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

A team of cancer imaging experts at Hopkins will search for ways to detect cancers in their earliest stages inside cells, and for ways to stop or kill them before the disease can spread to other tissues and organs.

The team will do so using imaging tools developed or used for the last decade at the Johns Hopkins In-Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center.

The initiative will be headed by Zaver Bhujwalla.

Hopkins? In-Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center is one of 10 such federally funded research centers in the U.S.

Johns Hopkins Medicine? ? Johns Hopkins Medicine Latest from The Business Journals Johns Hopkins Medicine to help treat patients in KuwaitJohns Hopkins Medicine to help treat patients in KuwaitWill new CEO accelerate Hopkins' pace in D.C.? Follow this company has received more than $8 million to begin researching a faster way to speed development of early diagnostic tests and new treatments for breast, prostate and other cancers.

The five-year grant was made through the U.S. National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

A team of cancer imaging experts at Hopkins will search for ways to detect cancers in their earliest stages inside cells, and for ways to stop or kill them before the disease can spread to other tissues and organs.

The team will do so using imaging tools developed or used for the last decade at the Johns Hopkins In-Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center.

The initiative will be headed by Zaver Bhujwalla.

Hopkins? In-Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center is one of 10 such federally funded research centers in the U.S.

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