Joanna Cosgrove11.04.10
Shortly before the beginning of October, a month dedicated to breast cancer awareness, Marshall University announced that two of its researchers had been awarded federal funds totaling more than $1 million to assess the effects of omega 3 fatty acids on breast cancer development.
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Dr. Elaine Hardman, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, and Dr. Philippe Georgel, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, were awarded three grants—two from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Breast Cancer Research Program worth $460,249 and $320,750, and a third totaling $266,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The research team will use the funds to delve deeper into earlier observations that a maternal diet including canola oil, as a source of omega 3 fatty acids, could reduce the risk for breast cancer in the offspring, and to identify the genetic changes associated with a maternal diet that contains omega 3 fatty acids. The pre-clinical studies are to be conducted on mice.
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