Seth Frietze, Dr. Ronald W. Pero International Research Green and Gold Professor
Seth Frietze, associate professor of medical laboratory science in the Department of Biomedical and Health Sciences, has been selected to receive the Dr. Ronald W. Pero International Research Green and Gold professorship created by Margaretha Pero to honor the life’s work of her husband, Ronald W. Pero.
The professorship promotes research activities essential to collecting knowledge about the mechanisms of cancer onset, progression, and spread in the body; and the resulting discoveries that lead to more effective and targeted treatments and better prevention strategies. The award also fosters the mentorship and training of future cancer biologists.
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Larner College of Medicine faculty Gary and Janet Stein are principal investigators on a new $9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to explore the epigenetics of breast cancer with the goal of finding new drug targets. (Photos: Sally McCay, Larner College of Medicine)
Project to Identify New Targets for Drug Treatment That Could Prevent or Halt Disease
Vermont Business Magazine A team of University of Vermont scientists and physician investigators at the UVM Cancer Center and the Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research Network has been awarded a $9 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to investigate the underlying causes of breast cancer with the goal of identifying new cellular-level targets that could be treated with drugs to prevent the disease or halt its progression.