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Alina Perez, Gabriel Suciu Receive Kenyon Cancer Grant
Gabriel Suciu, Leonard Levy, D.P.M., M.P.H. and Alina Perez.
Alina M. Perez, J.D., M.P.H., LCSW, associate professor of public health, and Gabriel Suciu, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., associate professor of biostatistics recently received the 2015–16 NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine Kenyon Cancer Research Grant.
Suciu will conduct a study entitled “Prognostic Factors of the Survival of Women with Locally Advanced Breast Cancer with ≥ 10 Lymph Nodes at Diagnosis Who Undergo Multimodality Therapy.” Perez will manage a study entitled “Assessing Knowledge and Attitudes of South Florida Minority Population on End-of-Life Care.”
Since 2001, NSU-COM has offered the Kenyon Cancer Research grant, which is provided by an endowment created by the late Franklin Kenyon and Frances Kenyon Agneski. The program helps support faculty members who engage in primary care cancer-related research with an award of up to $15,000 for one year.