Sontag Foundation Awards $1.2 Million for Brain Cancer Research
(Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida), September 30, 2008. The Sontag Foundation selected two recipients for 2008 Distinguished Scientist Awards. Through these awards, The Sontag Foundation recognizes and supports the work of outstanding early career scientists whose research has the potential to generate new knowledge relating to causes, cure, or treatment of brain tumors. Each award combines career development components with a research grant totaling $600,000 to support brain tumor research over a four-year period. The awards were presented to the following scientists:
Chay T. Kuo, M.D., Ph.D. an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Duke University. Dr. Kuo’s research will focus on exploring the relationship between mutations in stem-like cells and the formation of brain tumors. |
Cheng-Yu Lee, Ph.D. an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at University of Michigan. Dr. Lee will use stem-like neural cells of flies as a model to discover genes that regulate neuroblast self-renewal during normal brain development and tumor formation. |
The Sontag Foundation, headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, is a private foundation that funds medical research in the fields of brain cancer and rheumatoid arthritis on a national level and also awards grants to fund programs helping individuals living in Northeast Florida become more self-sufficient. Since 2002, The Sontag Foundation has awarded over $17 million in grants.
Contact:
Kay W. Verble
Executive Director
Phone: 904-273-8755
Fax: 904-273-8745
info[at]sontagfoundation.org
