UT Health Sciences News: Researcher Receives Renewed Federal Grant to Develop Next-Generation Prostate Cancer Treatments

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a competitive renewal grant of $2.26 million to Ramesh Narayanan, PhD, professor and Muirhead Chair of Excellence in the Department of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences. Dr. Narayanan also serves as deputy director of UT Health Sciences' Center for Cancer Research and associate dean of Research in the College of Medicine. The grant renews a five-year award originally funded from 2018 to 2023 and will support his project, "Novel Degraders of the Androgen Receptor (AR) and AR Splice Variants (AR-SVs)."

Prostate cancer ranks among the most common and deadly cancers affecting men worldwide. At the heart of the problem is a protein called the androgen receptor, which acts like an "on switch" for prostate cancer cell growth.

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