Cancer Vaccines

Biodesign Institute leads innovative project to prevent cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 26th, 2007

Biodesign Institute researchers have received nearly $9 million in grants to develop a preventive vaccine against cancer.

Stephen Albert Johnston, PhD, director of the institute’s Center for Innovations in Medicine, will focus his research project on breast cancer. Johnston is one of only two recipients in the nation bestowed with a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the Department of Defense’s Innovator Award, funded through its Breast Cancer Research Program. His Biodesign research colleague, Douglas Lake, PhD, will lead a three-year $1.2 million project from the W. M. Keck Foundation to take the basic technology and see whether it could be applied to several other...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2007-07-26)

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