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Texas A&M receives $6 million to create Center of Excellence in Cancer
Texas A&M receives $6 million to create Center of Excellence in Cancer Five-year grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas will support infrastructure to investigate and advance cancer prevention and care April 4, 2023 Jennifer Cain Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) has been awarded a five-year, $6 million…
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Chapkin Lab Undergrad Researcher Receives Award for Poster Presentation
Jennie P. Kim, a Nutritional Sciences major working on her Undergraduate Research Scholars Thesis in the Chapkin Lab (https://chapkinlab.tamu.edu) was recently awarded second place for her poster presentation in the Agricultural and Life Sciences category at the Texas A&M Student Research Week competition (https://srw.tamu.edu). Student Research Week is the largest student-run research symposium in the…
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CPRIT – TREC GRANT FUNDED: Gene – environment – lifestyle interactions in cancer
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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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…
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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…
