Awardees recognized for novel approaches to fuel breakthroughs in bladder cancer research
San Francisco, CA (UroToday.com) — The Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) announced the two recipients of its prestigious Bladder Cancer Research Innovation Award. This is the first year in which two awards have been granted. This year’s awardees are Weiguo Cui, PhD, an Associate Investigator at the Versiti Blood Research Institute and an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and John K. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the Human Biology Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. These awards are part of the more than $6 million in research grants that BCAN has awarded to end this disease that impacts the more than 600,000 people in the United States who are living with it.