Isaac Chiu, Stephen Liberles Tapped To Tackle One of Cancer’s Grand Challenges
Award provides up to $25 million to probe brain, cancer connections
At a glance
- Newly funded international team including Harvard Medical School scientists will investigate interactions between cancer and the nervous system, which can protect against or promote disease.
- Findings promise to illuminate one of the most complex problems in cancer research and could lead to strategies to prevent, treat, or alleviate symptoms of cancer.
- Team will focus on interoception — whether the brain’s ability to sense and control the body’s internal state includes monitoring and influencing tumor formation and progression.
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