Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:18 PM EDT2013-05-21 16:18:28 GMT
Three people were inside this burning home but managed to get out safely.
Firefighters are battling a massive fire in East Bank in Kanawha County. A house on Walnut Street went up in flames around 5:15 a.m. Firefighters said two people were home at the time but managed to
Three escape massive fire in a home on Walnut Street in Kanawha County
A Marshall University faculty member has been awarded a $426,000 grant by the National Institutes of Health to further her lung cancer research. The grant will be spread out over three years.
Dr. Piyali Dasgupta, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology in the university's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, was awarded the money.
She will use the grant to continue investigating capsaicin, an active ingredient in chili peppers. Dasgupta is looking into whether or not the chili-peppers can improve the anti-cancer activity of cisplatin, a commonly used chemotherapy drug, in patients with small cell lung cancer.
"Small cell lung cancer is characterized by a high rate of growth, early metastasis and a dismal survival rate," said Dasgupta. "Although chemotherapy works well initially in these patients, they often relapse quickly and become unresponsive to chemotherapy. Since the preliminary data in our laboratory shows that capsaicin manifests anti-cancer activity in this type of cancer, we are hopeful our studies under this new grant may lead to new treatments."
Dasgupta also had another grant renewed that involves nicotine and how it affects the progression of lung cancer.
Dasgupta, left
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