Illinois and Mayo Clinic awarded $20m Grant for Cancer Research | Office of Corporate Relations

Pengfei Song, the lead researcher at the Cancer Center at Illinois, which has been awarded a $20m grant

Pengfei Song, a researcher at the Cancer Center at Illinois has partnered with Mayo Clinic researcher, Shigao Chen to combat the issue of breast cancer misdiagnosis. Through Song’s proposal of using a new 3D multimodal ultrasound imaging technique, the team aims to tackle this problem. Their study has been awarded the US Department of Defense’s award — CDMRP FY20 Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Breakthrough Award, which grants them over $2.2 million in funding.

“Not only does the new transducer technology provide adequate imaging speed to achieve multimodal imaging, but it also paves a clear pathway for future clinical translation of the technologies developed in this proposal to benefit millions of breast cancer patients both in the US and around the world,” Song said.

Read more on Song and Chen’s breakthrough discovery here.