$12 million grant to fund new approach to cancer study at Stanford Media Newswire (press release)

07.06.10

(Media-Newswire.com) - The Stanford University Style of Medicine has been awarded $12.8 million over five years by the National Cancer Institute to establish a Center for Cancer Systems Biology. The center is one of 12 recently funded by the NCI to quicken integrative systems approaches and the application of computational modeling to cancer research.

�Our work views cancer as a complex system,� said associate professor of radiology Sylvia Plevritis, PhD. �As a substitute for of focusing on the function of one gene or protein, we want to identify a molecular network that captures interactions between many genes and proteins. Our approach differs from more accustomed scientific methods. Rather than starting with a hypothesis then collecting data to test it, we start by collecting worldwide expression data, analyze the data with computational methods to generate a hypothesis, then collect new materials to test the hypothesis.�

Plevritis is the director of the center; professor of microbiology

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