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Grant Success Stories
2022 | Our first grant
In 2008, Dr. Gregory Riggins, MD, PhD and professor of neurosurgery and oncology at Johns Hopkins, was studying pediatric brain cancer in mice, when the laboratory mice unexpectedly failed to grow the medulloblastomas that were implanted. An astute postdoc fellow observed that the mice were being treated prophylactically for pinworms with an antiparasitic drug. Dr. Riggins knew from previous studies that this class of antiparasitic drugs had interfered with other cancer studies.
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