Shaomeng Wang, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Medicine, professor of internal medicine, professor of pharmacology, Medical School, and professor of medicinal chemistry, College of Pharmacy, and a team of co-investigators have been selected to receive one of nine Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Awards. The awards total $9 million. The cross-disciplinary team developed inhibitors of an important prostate cancer driver protein that will provide a new therapeutic agent for Lupron-resistant prostate cancer, both in early and late disease progression. The co-investigators are: Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan, S. P. Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology, professor of pathology and professor of urology, Medical School; Jeanne Stuckey, research assistant professor, Biological Chemistry, Medical School, research assistant professor, Life Sciences Institute, and research assistant professor, biophysics, LSA; George Wang, assistant resident; Chao-Yie Yang, research assistant professor, internal medicine, Medical School; and Bushra Ateeq, research investigator, pathology, Medical School.

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