{"id":2400,"date":"2012-08-27T02:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T02:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2019-05-03T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:11:14","slug":"inbt-director-wins-provocative-questions-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/inbt-director-wins-provocative-questions-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"INBT director wins \u201cProvocative Questions\u201d grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter Searson, \u00a0director of Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, has received a \u201cProvocative Questions\u201d grant from the National Cancer Institute. Among the researchers nationwide who received this award, Searson is one of two at Johns Hopkins University. \u00a0Searson is the Joseph R. and Lynn C. Reynolds Professor in the Whiting School of Engineering. He is a professor of materials science and engineering and also co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence.<\/p>\n

A press release issued by Johns Hopkins states:<\/p>\n

Two Johns Hopkins scientists are among the first recipients of grants geared to answer \u201cProvocative Questions\u201d in cancer research, a new project funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Cynthia Sears, M.D., and Peter Searson, Ph.D., will receive more than $500,000 combined in the first of five years of funding.<\/p>\n

The federally funded \u201cProvocative Questions\u201d project will distribute more than $22 million this year among 57 grant recipients nationwide. Each grant aims to provide answers to one of 24 questions, solicited from the research community, that address neglected or unsolved areas of cancer research.<\/p>\n

Sears and Searson\u2019s projects were chosen by a specially-designed peer-review process from among more than 700 applications submitted by scientists.<\/p>\n

Sears will receive $236,480 in the first year of funding to examine how and why certain cancers may be caused by infections. An infectious disease expert, Sears has previously linked some colon cancers to common diarrheal bacteria, and her research will further explore how these and other microbes may cause colon cancer. Sears, a professor of medicine and oncology at Johns Hopkins, says these discoveries may help physicians detect earlier those at risk for colon cancer and prevent it more effectively.<\/p>\n

With $316,513 in first-year funding, Searson will develop a new method to study how cancer spreads, also known as \u201cmetastasis.\u201d He proposes a device with an artificial blood vessel and other cellular components to study the spread of cancer. The \u201clab-on-a-chip\u201d approach could replicate processes that occur in metastasis and provide a testing ground for experiments with a method easily reproduced by scientists. Searson is the Joseph R. and Lynn C. Reynolds Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and directs the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology.<\/p>\n

Sears\u2019 grant is titled \u201cMicrobial Induction of Colon Cancer and Mechanisms\u201d (NIH, NCI grant #R21CA170492-01), and Searson\u2019s is \u201cAn engineered platform for the study of metastasis\u201d (NIH, NCI grant #1R01CA170629-01)<\/p>\n

Original press release appears here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Peter Searson, \u00a0director of Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, has received a \u201cProvocative Questions\u201d grant from the National Cancer Institute. Among the researchers nationwide who received this award, Searson is one of two at Johns Hopkins University. \u00a0Searson is the Joseph R. and Lynn C. Reynolds Professor in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}