Central New York Business Journal: CNSE / SUNYIT professor to use
grant
for additional cancer-cell research
Published:
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 10:09
Central New York Business Journal
ALBANY, N.Y. — The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded a State University of New York (SUNY) professor a $1.65 million research grant.
The grant will fund additional research into signals that cancer cells use to respond to their environment.
The recipient is Thomas Begley, a nanobioscience professor at SUNY’s newly merged College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) in Albany and Institute of Technology (SUNYIT) in Marcy, the school said in a news release.
The five-year grant will allow researchers at SUNY CNSE/SUNYIT to use nanotechnology-enabled methods and human-cancer cells to identify signals that the environment influences, the school said.
Begley’s research focuses on miscommunications related to information processing among cells, which can lead to diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and autoimmunity issues.
The study of cell signaling, which the school describes as “how cancer cells respond to environmental conditions of oxygen stress and regulate stress response systems,” could lead to methods by which “diseases can be treated more effectively.”
