The National Institutes of Health awarded a $2.5 million grant to Dr. Eduardo Sotomayor for research on treatments for a type of blood cancer.
Sotomayor, the Susan and John Sykes Endowed Chair in Hematologic Malignancies at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, will use the grant to develop novel therapies for B-cell lymphomas and particularly for mantle cell lymphoma, a statement from Moffitt said.
Moffitt is one of the referral centers for mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive type of B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Moffitt has a collaboration with investigators at the University of Illinois that will help Moffitt investigators test new drugs for B-cell lymphomas, the statement said.
The NIH grant will be awarded over five years.
Moffitt is the only institution in Florida designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute.
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