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Awards
Japanese researcher awarded 2-year fellowship to continue brain tumor research
December 28th, 2004
TGen researcher Mitsutoshi Nakada, MD, PhD, received a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The 2-year $91,743 (10,000,000 yen) fellowship allows Nakada to continue his work on brain tumors at TGen under Michael Berens, PhD, head of TGen's Brain Tumor Cancer Unit. Nakada is working at TGen under a 2-year award from the American Brain Tumor Association. His research focuses on therapeutic targets of primary invasive brain tumors called gliomas. A family of genes called ephrins control processes in the brain during normal development, such as how neurons connect with one another, how blood vessels...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-12-28)
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