Christian Capitini, MD, awarded two UWCCC pilot grants

Christian Capitini, MD
Christian Capitini, MD

Christian Capitini, MD, associate professor, Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant, was recently awarded two separate grants through the 2020-2021 UW Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) Support Grant Pilot Program competition. In the first, Capitini will serve as Co-PI with Lixin Rui, PhD, Department of Medicine, on the $25,000 pilot project, “EGR1 is a new biomarker in aggressive lymphoma.” Capitini will also serve as Co-PI on a second project with Reinier Hernandez, PhD, Department of Medical Physics. They were awarded $50,000 for the project, “Expressing a bispecific Chimeric Antigen Receptor to enable imaging of CAR-T cell trafficking in vivo.”