2019 – Rhode Island Hospital

A $3.9 million multi-year grant to support a team of physician-scientist cutting-edge work to fight glioblastoma, a highly aggressive and intractable cancer of the brain. The grant funds “Investigation of the role of epigenetics in malignant Glioma”, the progression of the disease and its potential treatment. Epigenetics is the study of how genes are modified without changing the underlying DNA.