The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center has awarded $1.2 million in research grants through its new program, O’Neal Invests.

The O’Neal Invests program funds UAB investigators initiating new cancer-related research. The grant will help investigators do key, preliminary work in order to enable competitive R01 applications.

Sunil Sudarshan, professor of Urology and co-leader of the Cancer Biology and Immunology Program within the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, was selected as an awardee for his project “Metabolic Regulation of Cancer Invasiveness.” 

Sudarshan was one of eight awardees to receive $160,000 in funding over two years.