University of Colorado Cancer Center awards grants to faculty

Six faculty members have been awarded University of Colorado Cancer Center American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants. The 2010 recipients each will receive $30,000 to explore a cancer research topic for one year.

The awards are for junior faculty members who have not obtained national funding and are intended to jump-start their independent research programs in order to help them receive more funding, said the center's interim director, Andrew Thorburn, Ph.D.

Grant winners are:

	Gagan Deep, Ph.D. research instructor, pharmaceutical sciences; University of Colorado School of Pharmacy
	Dohun Pyeon, Ph.D. assistant professor; microbiology; University of Colorado Denver
	Rebecca Schweppe, Ph.D. assistant professor; endocrinology/metabolism/diabetes; University of Colorado School of Medicine
	Rajeev Vibhakar, M.D., Ph.D. assistant professor, pediatrics; University of Colorado School of Medicine
	Xiaoping Yang, Ph.D. research instructor, medical oncology; University of Colorado School of Medicine
	Rui Yi, Ph.D. assistant professor, molecular, cellular and developmental biology; University of Colorado at Boulder