Cancer Prevention

Team pioneers tests of new drug with 'red wine compound.'

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 3rd, 2002

The University of Leicester has been selected as one of the first centers in the world to trial a revolutionary new cancer prevention drug, based on a natural compound found in red wine. This will form a major part of the cancer prevention research at the university.

Cancer researchers from the department of oncology, based at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, have been awarded just over 1 million pounds sterling (US$1.7 million) along with the University of Michigan. The award, from the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), the major U.S. government body which funds and coordinates cancer research, is the first time that a group outside America has been funded by the...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2002-12-03)

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