UA Researcher Gets Grant for Ovarian Cancer Screening Device
The cancer is one of the deadliest forms today, primarily because there are currently no effective or widely used tests to detect it at its earliest stages when most treatable.
University of Arizona professor of biomedical engineering Jennifer Barton has been awarded a four-year National Institutes of Health grant totaling nearly $1.3 million to develop a novel tool that would be used to identify the earliest signs of ovarian cancer.
Barton, interim director of the UA's BIO5 Institute, is collaborating with Khanh Kieu, assistant professor of optical sciences, and Kenneth Hatch, professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
This is a new way of thinking about accessing the ovary in a minimally invasive way," said Barton, adding that this type of access is similar to approved egg-harvesting procedures for in vitro fertilization.
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