Salk's Dannielle Engle awarded over $1 million to study tobacco use on pancreatic cancer

(Salk Institute) Salk Institute Assistant Professor Dannielle Engle has been awarded a New Investigator Award from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) to examine how tobacco use promotes cellular changes that lead to pancreatic cancer. Engle will receive over $1 million over three years to develop new models for examining how tobacco carcinogens (cancer-causing substances) lead to tumor development and metastasis.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news