Cycle 5 of the Bragg Cancer Research Endowment Grant Awards Announced
The Bragg Cancer Research Endowment was created in 2015 with funds raised in a philanthropic campaign led by community volunteers Steve and Becky South. The endowment will continue to fund meaningful cancer research on the campus of the medical center and the Graduate School of Medicine. The 5th Cycle of cancer research grant awards from the Bettie Lane Barnhill and Oscar Roe Bragg Cancer Research Endowment were awarded in 2024. These awards totaled $110,000 with four impactful research projects selected. Listed below are the Cycle 5 principal investigators and their project titles: • Jonathan Delong, MD: “Advancing Precision Care: Development and Training of a Machine-Learning Algorithm for the Automated Classification of Surgical Drain Output in Surgical Oncology Patients Using Computer Vision” • Timothy Panella, MD: “The Molecular Effect of Green Tea Combination on DCIS” • Clark Cutrer, MD: “A Prospective Randomized Study of Bone Marrow Biopsy Quality Obtained in Interventional Radiology Compared to Outpatient Clinic” • Che Solla, MD: “Efficacy of Perioperative Opioid Sparing Techniques on Time to Initiation of Chemotherapy: A Randomized, Double-Blind Control Study”
Cycle 6 award winners will be announced in 2025.
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