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September, 2006
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Cancer Answers Supports GSBS Cancer Researchers

 

With their 2006 gift of $75,000 from Cancer Answers charitable organization, the Sowell and Huggins families, friends and community cancer survivors have provided more than $500,000 for merit awards to students of The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston (GSBS) doing cancer research. Cancer Answers founders, Joann Sowell, left, and Marcia Huggins Jahncke, right, are mothers of sons who, as teenagers, were cured of testicular cancer. The women started an endowment that now annually awards $2,500 to up to six students and a full $23,000 stipend to a professor/fellow team. Jing Zhang, second from left, is the Andrew Sowell-Wade Huggins Fellow 2006, and her advisor, Gary Gallick, Ph.D., the Andrew Sowell-Wade Huggins Professor. Gallick is professor of cancer biology at the UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and GSBS. Photo by Linda Carter

Photo by Linda Carter

With their 2006 gift of $75,000 from Cancer Answers charitable organization, the Sowell and Huggins families, friends and community cancer survivors have provided more than $500,000 for merit awards to students of The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston (GSBS) doing cancer research. Cancer Answers founders, Joann Sowell, left, and Marcia Huggins Jahncke, right, are mothers of sons who, as teenagers, were cured of testicular cancer. The women started an endowment that now annually awards $2,500 to up to six students and a full $23,000 stipend to a professor/fellow team.

Jing Zhang, second from left, is the Andrew Sowell-Wade Huggins Fellow 2006, and her advisor, Gary Gallick, Ph.D., the Andrew Sowell-Wade Huggins Professor. Gallick is professor of cancer biology at the UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and GSBS.

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