UTA awarded $6 million in 2016 to find new ways to identify and treat cancer

The threat of cancer touches all our lives. UTA is harnessing its expertise across the sciences, engineering and nursing to solve this global health crisis. The University of Texas at Arlington is becoming a major cancer research institute, receiving more than $6 million dollars in new grants in 2016 to strengthen its integrated cancer research program and improve outcomes across the complete spectrum of the patient experience. “UTA’s scientific expertise across basic cancer research, identification and diagnostics and non-invasive, mid-term, invasive and post-operative therapies is