Fred Hutchinson Researchers Win $17.5M from NCI's Early Detection Research Network

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have won $17.5 million from the National Cancer Institute's Early Detection Research Network in five-year awards toward ongoing coordination of the EDRN, as well as projects centered on colon cancer biomarker discovery and breast and ovarian cancer biomarker validation.........Christopher Li, a member of the public health sciences division, received $2.5 million to lead a clinical epidemiology and validation center for breast and ovarian cancer – one of nine such centers in the US. Li plans to validate breast and ovarian cancer biomarkers with phase III studies, as well as share the center's breast and ovarian cancer tissue repositories with collaborators, said the Hutch...cont'd