By W. Scott Bailey of the San Antonio Business Journal for BizJournals
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded 58 new grants worth more than $111 million to a number of organizations across the state — including several to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
CPRIT has awarded more than $2.6 million to the Health Science Center for a trio of Individual Investigator Research Awards. The Health Science Center has secured an additional $2 million Individual Investigator Research Award for Cancer in Children and Adolescents.
In addition, CPRIT has awarded a $2 million product development research grant to San Antonio’s NanoTx Therapeutics for the development of rhenium nanoliposomes for cancer therapy.