Pre-Cancer Atlas Research Center Archive — Page 1 of 1

Three researchers pose in a laboratory beside shelves of equipment and racks of red-capped sample tubes; two wear white lab coats and one wears a blue blouse.

September 27, 2018

Cancer Moonshot award to help map tumor progression

A trans-institutional team of researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University has received an $11 million Cancer Moonshot grant to build a single-cell resolution atlas to map out the routes that benign colonic polyps take to progress to colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer among both men and women in the United States.

By Tom Wilemon