USC team given new grant to study genetic makeup underlying disease risks in minority populations
By Leslie Ridgeway
A research team co-led by USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists is one of five teams to be awarded four-year grants totaling nearly $14 million to study the genomics of disease susceptibility in ethnically diverse populations. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the grant funds.
A team led by co-principal investigators Christopher Haiman, PhD, professor of preventive medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, and Loic Le Marchand, MD, PhD of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, is scheduled to be awarded $3.1 million to examine the DNA from samples collected from the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC). … Read More »