Investigating the Role of Aging and Poor Nutrition on Colon Cancer: NIH Awards Einstein $3.2 Million Grant
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
Two risk factors - getting older and eating poorly - are implicated in more than 80 percent of colon cancer cases in developed countries. Now, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate how aging and poor nutrition interact to cause the mutations responsible for driving colon cancer development.