Cincinnati Children’s Hospital lands $2.3M grant for cancer research

Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have landed a $2.3 million federal grant to continue research into treatments for leukemia and and bone marrow failure.  The grants were distributed by the National Institutes of Health and will fund five years worth of research. The first of the two grants will fund research work studying the blocking of a protein that initiates disease in bone marrow and leukemia stem cells.  The second grant will be used to focus on how certain proteins affect the development of blood cells in bone marrow. Read full article here.