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Oversight committee approves five academic recruitment awards totaling $12 million, adds survivorship as a research priority
Summary
The oversight committee approved five recruitment awards recommended by the Scientific Review Council and the Program Integration Committee, authorized contracting, and approved a new proposed academic research priority focused on cancer survivorship and caregiver research.
The CPRIT oversight committee approved five academic research recruitment awards for FY25 cycle 25.1 and delegated contract negotiation authority to the CEO and staff during its Nov. 15 meeting.
Dr. LeBeau (academic research program) reported that the Scientific Review Council reviewed 20 scholar nominations and recommended five awards totaling approximately $12 million. The slate included one Rising Star award (Dr. Daniel Addison to UT Southwestern) and four recruitment awards for first-time tenure-track faculty: Dr. Fangyu Liu (UT Southwestern, structural/structure-guided drug discovery), Dr. Zhangdong Li (UTHealth Houston, mechanisms of KRAS inhibitor resistance), Dr. Norihiro…
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