AU researcher wins cancer grant
Article content A researcher in Algoma University’s School of Life Sciences and the Environment has received a prestigious $162,500 grant to further her research in cancer biology. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada awarded a Discovery grant to Dr. Nirosha Murugan for her research program Biophysical Control of Tissue Re-Programming. Murugan’s research aims to understand how cells communicate with each other in order to be able to prevent or stop cancer cells from developing. “In the biological world, cells are constantly talking to each other,” Murugan...