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Oversight committee approves 15 academic research grants totaling nearly $27.6 million
Summary
The CPRIT oversight committee approved a slate of 15 academic research awards recommended by the Program Integration Committee, covering core facilities, childhood and adolescent cancers, computational oncology and recruitments of tenure‑track and established investigators.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) oversight committee voted Aug. 20 to approve 15 academic research grant awards recommended by the Program Integration Committee (PIC), totaling nearly $27.6 million.
The grants cover multiple mechanisms, including core facility support, early clinical investigator awards, high‑impact/high‑risk research, a TREC pilot study, and recruitment of established and first‑time tenure‑track investigators. The slate won approval after the committee voted to consider all slates at once rather than taking separate votes on each mechanism.
The awards include funding…
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