Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and his team were awarded a grant from The V Foundation for Cancer Research for $41,727. Their submission was titled “Use of PET and MR Imaging Biomarkers to Predict Response of Renal Cell Carcinoma to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Therapy.”
Madabhushi and his team will be developing computerized analytic tools to fuse PET and MRI to find image markers of early treatment response for renal cell cancers.