Roswell Park Designated Scientific Lead for Ongoing Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
The Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, a longstanding effort to document and interpret tobacco use in the U.S., has been awarded another nine years of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The study will be conducted by Westat of Rockville, Md., with Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) continuing as scientific lead and Andrew Hyland, PhD, Chair of the RPCI Department of Health Behavior, serving as principal investigator. Funding to Roswell Park over the term of the contract is expected to total $17.7 million.