Penn Medicine lands $12M NIH grant to advance ultra-fast delivery method for radiation therapy

The National Institutes of Health awarded Penn Medicine researchers a five-year, $12.3 million grant to study an emerging form of radiation therapy treatment that could mean both a shorter duration and frequency for patients. The grant will be used to build on preclinical research conducted by researchers at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Their research is looking at a potential new form of radiation that provides ultra-fast doses in under a second, compared to several…
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