David Nanus, M.D. receives Creativity Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation
Dr. David Nanus was awarded $100,000 from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to support his research program titled "PSMA-based Microfluidics-Capture of Circulating Prostate Cancer Cells: Study of Microtubule-driven Androgen Receptor Signaling, Gene Fusion, and Gene Expression Profiles with Correlation to Clinical Response to Taxane Therapy". This is a broad based research endeavor involving the Division of Hematology/Oncology (Drs. Nanus and Evi Giannakakou), the Department of Pathology (Dr. Mark Rubin), the Department of Urology (Dr. Neil Bander), the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health (Dr. Mahdu Mazumdar) as well as the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at Cornell University (Dr. Brian Kirby). Through the Creativity Award, the Prostate Cancer Foundation funds exceptional programs that bring NEW research methods and techniques in life, physical, or computational sciences to solving the prostate cancer problem that have not previously been directed against prostate cancer.