Marquette Professor Receives $1.2 Million Grant for Cancer Research

A biology professor at Marquette University is getting a one-point-two-million-dollar National Institutes of Health grant to further explore how to repair damaged D-N-A cells.  The results of Doctor Edwin Antony’s research could potentially influence the future of cancer treatments.  Antony will identify the mechanisms of proteins involved in D-N-A repair which repair lesions that occur through environmental carcinogens and incorrect D-N-A replication.  He says this grant will support understanding how cells protect their D-N-A and will hopefully help the broader science community in its fight against cancer.  The grant will cover four years of research on this project.