OU Biologist Awarded Cancer Research Grant

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A biologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has been awarded a nearly $600,000 grant for breast cancer research.

Wei-Qun Ding will receive the grant over three years from Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

He becomes the first Oklahoma scientist to receive a Komen research grant.

Ding researches how certain molecules, called metal ionophores, kill breast cancer cells.

Officials say they hope his research might be tested in 10 years.