$5.5 million federal grant boosts UVA scientists’ unique cancer research • Virginia Mercury

$5.5 million federal grant boosts UVA scientists’ unique cancer research • Virginia Mercury

A nurse provides assistance to a patient undergoing a mammogram in a modern medical facility. (Tom Werner/Getty Images)Could ultrasound technology help better target cancer treatments? University of Virginia researcher Natash Sheybani recently received a $5.5 million dollar grant that can help her, and her team, answer that question.  As the research director at UVA’s Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center, the grant from the federal Dep…