Indian-US scientist wins $6.5 mn to improve cancer diagnosis
The US National Cancer Institute has given the Outstanding Investigator Award to Indian-origin Professor Arul Chinnaiyan and $6.5 million in funding over seven years, to identify cancer biomarkers. In 2010, the University of Michigan researcher had launched an oncology programme for sequencing the DNA and RNA of metastatic cancers and normal tissue to identify alterations and improve diagnosis.