Boone Wilder Goodgame, M.D., assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Oncology, has received a two-year, $40,000 Young Investigator Award from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. Goodgame will use gene chip technology to analyze tumor samples from lung cancer patients. That will allow him to identify proteins that indicate a high risk for lung cancer spreading to the brain. The proteins will be the basis of a simple, low-cost test to identify lung cancer patients at highest risk of brain metastases. These patients could undergo radiation therapy to prevent growth of brain tumors, or they could be enrolled in clinical trials of new medicines to prevent brain metastasis. …
Anna Warrener, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $13,450 grant from the Leakey Foundation for research titled “Biomechanics of the Hip and Locomotor Cost in Hominins.”