On Feb. 17, 2016, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) awarded grants totaling $26,000,000 to support the recruitment of six outstanding cancer scientists, including three distinguished senior researchers, to Baylor College of Medicine and three institutions of The University of Texas System – MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT Austin and UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The latest round of grants helped Texas academic institutions recruit three distinguished senior researchers, including two world-class structural biologists.

The awards also supported the recruitment of two promising emerging investigators pursuing their first faculty appointments in Texas, along with an early-stage investigator who has established an internationally recognized research program in cancer proteogenomics.

Beginning operations in 2009, CPRIT had to date awarded nearly $1.5 billion in grants to Texas researchers, institutions and organizations.

Programs made possible with CPRIT funding have reached all 254 counties of the state, brought 104 distinguished researchers to Texas, advanced scientific and clinical knowledge, and provided over 2.7 million life-saving education, training, prevention and early detection services to Texans.