Jashodeep Datta, a researcher with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program to target chemotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer. The $800,000, three-year grant is the first DoD award to Sylvester to study pancreatic cancer.
Lei Zheng was named executive director of the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, and vice president for oncology for the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
