LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Game-changing technology is coming to UofL Health to help fight cancer.
UofL cancer researches, the UofL Health—Brown Cancer Center and UofL's Center for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy have been awarded an $11.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The grant will help continue and expand work to develop new immunotherapies for cancer patients. The goal is to develop and improve treatments that activate a patient's immune system to fight cancer. Officials said the funding will also help train "the next generation of cancer researchers and oncologists."
"If you talk about UofL Health and the Brown Cancer Center, the ability to do things like this exist in only a few places around the country, and we are lucky enough to have one of those places here in Louisville," Dr. Jason Smith, UofL Health CEO, said. "And so taking that opportunity to care for patients, to deliver that kind of care across the Commonwealth, to deliver that kind of care across the world is just a wonderfully special thing to be a part of and I'[m so proud that it's at UofL Health."
The cutting-edge technology is helping people survive almost a decade after being diagnosed with metastatic melanoma.
UofL's CCII was created in 2020 with a five-year, $11.5 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant. The grant announced Wednesday will expand its work for five more years, according to a news release.
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