The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock | Photo courtesy of UAMS
The National Institutes of Health awarded the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences a $5.8 million grant to continue its research into the side effects of cancer treatment, the health system has announced.
The five-year grant will fund the third phase of the UAMS Center for Studies of Host Response to Cancer Therapy, according to a UAMS news release. The research initiative, under the federal Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence, is the nation’s first to solely focus on the side effects of cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapy, the release states…