Past R&E Research Resident Grant Recipient Receives NCI Outstanding Investigator Award
March 25, 2016
Kirsch
David G. Kirsch, M.D., Ph.D., a radiation oncologist from the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., recently received an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Dr. Kirsch received a Holman Pathway Research Resident Grant from the RSNA Research and Education (R&E) Foundation in 2004 for his study, “Combining Anti-angiogenesis Therapy with Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Lung Cancer in Mice.”
The $6.6 million award from the NCI covers seven years and will fund Dr. Kirsch’s ongoing research to improve the efficacy and safety of radiation therapy for people with cancer.
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