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UCLA’s Luca Valle receives $2.1M grant from VA to improve prediction of radiorecurrent prostate cancer outcomes

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Luca Valle, assistant professor of radiation oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was awarded a $2.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to develop new methods to better understand the clinical scope and biological factors that lead to prostate cancer coming back after radiation therapy.

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