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Hitting the Target: Industrial Engineering Professors Earn Grant to Improve Proton Therapy for Cancer

Two industrial engineering professors at the UH Cullen College of Engineering received a grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to optimize the clinical effectiveness of proton therapy for cancer patients.

The competitive three-year, $879,362 grant was awarded to research assistant professor Wenhua Cao, who will serve as principal investigator, and Gino Lim, Hari and Anjali Agrawal faculty fellow and chairman of the industrial engineering department. Researchers from two other Texas institutions – the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University – are included in the collaborative cancer research project. 

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