UT Southwestern’s Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center has been awarded $5.5 million in grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Kalil Abdullah, M.D. (above), assistant professor of neurological surgery, received $1.5 million for his work on gliomas, the most common type of brain tumor. Other CPRIT awards include: $1.5M to David Gerber, M.D.,professor of internal medicine and population and data sciences and associate director of clinical research, to include more minorities in clinical trials; $2M to the Moncrief Cancer Institute in Fort Worth to expand lung cancer screening and patient navigation; $250K to biochemistry professors Uttam Tambar, Ph.D. and Bruce Posner, Ph.D. to explore a new strategy for drug discovery for a broad range of cancer types;