RSDM Researcher Closer to Bringing Cancer Treatment to Market

Dr. Scott Kachlany at work in the lab.

A drug proven to kill leukemia cells in animals is closer to reaching patients after a Rutgers School of Dental Medicine researcher was awarded nearly $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund the process of getting FDA approvals.

Scott Kachlany, an associate professor in the department of oral biology, and his company, Actinobac Biomed, Inc., were awarded a grant from the NIH/National Cancer Institute to develop a potential treatment for blood cancers and autoimmune inflammatory diseases. Read more at My Central Jersey.com.