Charlottesville-based University of Virginia was awarded $12 million from the NIH National Cancer Institute, NBC 29 reported Sept. 14.
The money will support tumor growth research.
"We have a fantastic School of Medicine and a fantastic School of Engineering in one place because we have people who are good at modeling cancer experimentally and computationally, and this grant really provides the resources to do get more of that," Matthew Lazzara, PhD, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering and member of the cancer center, told NBC 29.