Moffitt Cancer Center Receives Prestigious SPORE Grant Worth More Than $10 MillionTAMPA – The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded Dr. Gerold Bepler, program leader for thoracic oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, and his team a Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant in lung cancer. The grant totals $10,475,090 over five years. This is Moffitt’s first SPORE grant, which puts them in the company of other leading cancer centers like University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Mayo Clinic. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for men and women. Florida is second behind California in the number of new lung cancer cases per year. Moffitt will conduct four research projects with various team members.
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