Ganem Awarded ACS Scholar Grant

Neil J. Ganem, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine, section of hematology and medical oncology, has received a four-year, $792,000 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society.

Ganem’s research seeks to define the tumor suppression mechanisms that limit the proliferation of aneuploidy cells (those cells possessing an abnormal number of chromosomes), as well as to identify the common genetic adaptions made by cancer cells to overcome these growth barriers.

Ganem believes this work has the potential to reveal new therapeutic avenues that selectively kill abnormal, chromosomally unstable cancer cells while sparing the normal cells from which they originated.