Nelson awarded $4.5 million to study prevention and treatment of metastatic breast cancer

(Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Erik Nelson has won a $4.5M Era of Hope Scholar Award from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP). This prestigious award supports individuals early in their careers who have demonstrated significant potential to effect meaningful change in breast cancer research.