The Chapkin Lab is pleased to announce the award of a $6 million grant from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas – TREC funding to support research in “Gene – environment – lifestyle interactions in cancer”. Dr. Robert Chapkin to serve as Deputy Director of the grant, Dr. Kenneth Ramos to serve as […]
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Research in the Chapkin lab focuses on dietary/microbial modulators related to the prevention of cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases. The lab has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the past 34 years.
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CPRIT – TREC GRANT FUNDED: Gene – environment – lifestyle interactions in cancer

TEXAS A&M RESEARCHERS TO FURTHER DEVELOP UNIQUE CANCER DRUG WITH $2.3M NIH GRANT
Drs. Robert Chapkin, Gus Wright, James Cai, and Stephen Safe received a new NIH grant to perform a single cell multi-omic analysis of the colon tumor microenvironment to probe the mechanistic underpinnings of NR4A1-dependent modulation of T-cell exhaustion. Story by Jennifer Gauntt, VMBS Communications February 1, 2023 Preliminary data indicate that the compounds developed in […]

Reappointed holder of the William W. Allen Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention in the Department of Nutrition
Congratulations! Dr. Robert S. Chapkin has been reappointed as the holder of the William W. Allen Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention in the Department of Nutrition for a second 5-year term from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2027. As the holder of the William W. Allen Chair in Nutrition since December […]

$1.19 million grant will leverage single-cell sequencing technology: National Institutes of Health-funded project will help with cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention
The Texas A&M University System has received a $1.19 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, NIH, for a multidisciplinary collaboration to study the intricate connections between genomics, nutrition and health. Understanding these connections will help in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases. Yang Ni, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of […]