Owen McCarty, PhD part of new consortium of scientists

03/17/10  Portland, OR

Owen McCarty, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Science and Engineering, is part of a new consortium of scientists and engineers that has been awarded $10 million by the National Cancer Institute to take a nontraditional approach to understanding cancer metastasis.

Led by the Scripps Research Institute, the consortium is dubbed the 4DB Center and brings together oncologists and pathologists at Scripps Clinic, the University of California San Diego Moore Cancer Center, and Billings Clinic (Montana) with physicists and biologists at Scripps Research Institute, applied mathematicians and engineers at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, and biomedical engineers at the OHSU School of Medicine.

The full story can be found HERE.

For more information on the 4DB Physical Sciences Oncology Center, see http://4db.us.