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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