Emory Pharmacology and Chemical Biology and Winship Receive $11 Million Grant from NCI to Improve Lung Cancer Immunotherapy
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Pharmacology and Chemical Biology Professor and Chair Haian Fu, PhD and Winship Executive Director and Professor Suresh Ramalingam, MD have been awarded a P01 program project grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support research aimed at improving the effectiveness of immunotherapy for lung cancer in patients with a mutation of the LKB1 gene, a group for whom the present immunotherapy options do not provide robust benefit. The award will provide nearly $11 million dollars over five years.