Maryland receives several grants for cancer research

Researchers at several Maryland universities as well as the National Cancer Institute have been awarded $3,844,000 in grants by the American Cancer Society. The grants, which started July 1, went to researchers with Johns Hopkins University; University of Maryland, College Park; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and National Cancer Institute in a variety of disciplines.

The largest grant award in Maryland – $1.66 million – went to Cheryl L. Holt, director of the Center for Health Behavior Research at the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Holt is also the co-leader of the Population Science Program at the University of Maryland’s Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her grant award will be used to study the “Integration of Cancer Health Activities into African American Churches” in efforts to investigate the implications of cancer health disparities.

The American Cancer Society is the largest non-profit funding source for cancer research in the U.S., with investments totaling more than $4.5 billion since 1946. Forty seven Society-funded researchers have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize, and previous grant winners played critical roles in the development of cancer research breakthroughs.

The grant recipients’ research varies from prostate and brain cancer to individualized cancer screenings. The important sociological and scientific research these recipients are working on are part of the reason for improvements in the quality of health care and life-saving treatments.

In addition to Dr. Holt, the Maryland grant award winners for 2016 are:

• $163,500: Amend, Sarah R., PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University
• $792,000: Leung, Anthony K. PhD, assistant professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• $300,000: Schoenborn, Nancy, MD, assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• $163,500: Tubbs, Anthony, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, National Cancer Institute
• $758,000: Woodworth, Graeme F., MD, co-director of the Translational Therapeutics Research Group, University of Maryland, Baltimore.

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