|
After Shirley Weaver battled breast cancer in 1980, she and her husband, George Weaver Jr., established an endowment in her name to support research at the WVU Cancer Institute.
 Nearly 44 years later, George Weaver III and his wife, Ann, are celebrating his parents’ 90th birthdays with a $250,000 gift to boost the Shirley M. Weaver Research Fund to more than $1 million in contributions.
A team of researchers assembled by Lori Hazlehurst, associate director of basic research at the WVU Cancer Institute, has been awarded a one-year, $840,091 Team Science Supplement to an existing IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) grant to seek a drug for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Hazelhurst’s team includes:
The team seeks to validate an enzyme called Ero1-α as a promising target for new drug development.
After Shirley Weaver battled breast cancer in 1980, she and her husband, George Weaver Jr., established an endowment in her name to support research at the WVU Cancer Institute.
|
