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Durham, N.C. — Susan G. Komen for the Cure pledged more than $8 million to Duke researchers working on early detection and prevention strategies for aggressive breast cancer.
The grants will fund four projects at the Duke University School of Medicine, including a study of
why African-American women die more frequently than their white counterparts from breast cancer.
The researchers and their projects are:
- Victoria Seewaldt, $6.75 million (shared with M.D. Anderson Cancer Center), Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers
- Gerard Blobe, $600,000, TbetaRIII/sTbetaRIII in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer
- Jen-Tsan Chi, $600,000, Mammary epithelial cell types as determinant of hypoxia responses in breast cancers
- Catherine Drendall, $427,329, Development of Proteomic Signatures of Risk to Estrogen-Independent Breast Cancer
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