Richard Bennett, Ph.D., a research associate professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the UF College of Medicine, has received a prestigious five-year, $850,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support research investigating epigenetic mechanisms of cancer.
Bennett received the competitive R50 Research Specialist Award, designed to encourage stable research career opportunities for exceptional scientists pursuing research in the context of an existing NCI-funded cancer research program. The awards go to researchers who are vital to sustaining the biomedical research enterprise.