Markus Bredel, M.D., Ph.D., professor and Sharon A. Spencer Distinguished Endowed Chair in Translational Radiation Oncology, has been awarded a pre-RO1 grant through The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB. Bredel was named a spring 2023 O’Neal Invests awardee for his project, Haploinsufficiency of NFKBIA Subverts Dynamic Chromatin Regulation during Gliomagenesis.

O’Neal Invests provides UAB investigators with funding to conduct research on novel ideas with considerable promise and potential impact on the field of cancer care. Pre-R01 grants are for $160,000 over two years.

Read more about the spring 2023 O'Neal Invests recipients here.