SA academics win health research grants
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University of Adelaide health researchers have been awarded $22.8 million in Federal Government funding to help tackle some of the country’s most serious health problems, including breast cancer, stroke and diabetes.
Breast cancer researcher Professor David Callen from the School of Medicine has won the biggest block of funding – $1.3 million – for three separate projects investigating the role of Vitamin D in breast cancer, as well as developing new pathways to stop the spread of tumours.
Professor Callen said two of the projects would help track pathways responsible for spreading cancer cells throughout the body. He said that the grants will fund cancer projects that are the culmination of more than 20 years of research.
