University of Montana receives $9.9 million grant for health research

Why some cancers are resistant to chemotherapy treatments is a question that assistant University of Montana professor Erica Woodahl is trying to figure out.

"Cancer is evading our ways to kill it," said the researcher, who works in UM’s Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

One way to answer that question is to examine how prescription drugs move, or in some cases don’t move, through human cells. And thanks to a recent competitive grant secured by UM’s Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, Woodahl can further examine why certain proteins won’t allow toxic agents to penetrate some cells.

By CHELSI MOY of the Missoulian

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