Richard Castillo, PhD, DABR, a medical physicist and investigator in Winship's Department of Radiation Oncology, has been awarded a $2.9 million R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute.
December 5, 2019
Richard Castillo, PhD, DABR, a medical physicist and investigator in Winship's Department of Radiation Oncology, has been awarded a $2.9 million R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for a grant titled "Development of a Novel Lung Function Imaging Modality for Comprehensive Management of Lung Cancer."
Castillo, who was recently appointed vice chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Voting Subcommittee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, his brother Edward Castillo, PhD from Beaumont Health, and Yevgeniy Vinogradskiy, PhD from University of Colorado Health are all principal investigators on the grant. The group will also collaborate with an industry partner, MIM Software Inc.
"I am honored to work with MIM Software as part of an academic-industry collaboration that will facilitate the development of a new radiation therapy treatment option for lung cancer patients," says Castillo.
The grant (R01CA236857), which will be awarded over a five-year period, will translate a novel method of visualizing lung function into clinical care for lung cancer patients receiving radiotherapy.