Mesothelioma Tissue Bank Will Get $5.5M Funding Grant

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) plans to award a five-year, $5.5 million grant to continue funding the much-needed National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank (NMVB) through 2021. The NMVB is a biospecimen registry designed to facilitate scientific research of mesothelioma, the rare and aggressive cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. It is the only federally funded program designed exclusively for mesothelioma research. "It's often difficult to pull enough material together for [researching] a disease like this," Dr. Ainsley Weston, associate director for science at NIOSH, told Asbestos.com. "This project provides access to the tools that researchers need to make progress." The NMVB has been based at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center since its ...

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