Targeted Therapeutics Research Award
Funded equally by LUNGevity Foundation and the Upstate Medical University at State University of New York
Jing An, MD, PhD
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse
NY
Radiation therapy is used for the treatment of lung cancer. Sometimes, the cancer does not respond to radiation. Dr. An is developing new drugs to make lung cancer cells sensitive to radiation. The primary goal of the research is to provide lung cancer patients with a customized combination treatment of the drugs and radiation therapy.
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