University of Minnesota Gets Grant

University of Minnesota Gets Grant

The University of Minnesota has received two grants totaling over $20 million from the National Cancer Institute. The funds will be distributed over the next five years. The first grant is for research on using umbilical cord blood stem cells for patients with leukemia and lymphoma, and the other is to continue research on “natural killer” cancer cells. (See Blog post of 10/11/05, “Embryonic Stem Cells Can Kill Cancer,” for a related story.) The news was reported by the University’s newspaper, the Minnesota Daily. The press release is also available on the University website. The researchers are part of the Cancer Center. The University also has a Stem Cell Institute, which is doing research on a variety of types of stem cells.