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NCI awards five-year, $13.3M grant for collaborative study on sequential combinations of targeted inhibitors, immunotherapies

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NCI has awarded a five-year, $13.3 million grant to a collaborative study on sequential combinations of targeted inhibitors and immunotherapies against cancer. 

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