Engineer receives $1.5 million grant

Courtesy UT - Office of Public Affairs  Mon, 06/30/2008 - 11:13am

A biomedical engineering assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute grant to conduct nanoparticle cancer research.

Grant recipient James Tunnell says the five-year project will include collaboration with other researchers from the university, M.D.

Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University [...]



 

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