A researcher from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been awarded funding to further his research into the detection of prostate cancer, the school announced Monday.
Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, associate professor of radiology and biomedical engineering, received a two-year grant for almost $450,000 from the National Institutes of Health.
Jadvar’s research will study the use of image-targeted biopsies through the implementation of PET radiotracers.
“For patients who have had biopsies of the prostate gland and the urologist didn’t find anything, but their blood PSA level is elevated, the question becomes ‘What do you do next?’” Jadvar said in a statement. “I’ve found that in a patient that previously had a negative biopsy, this tracer might be able to find cancer.”
The study is scheduled to begin sometime in 2015, and approximately 40 patients are expected to take part.
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