A study to see whether there's a link between PCBs and breast cancer is part of a Wayne State University scientist's work that has received $775,000 in federal stimulus funding.
Melissa Runge-Morris is acting director of the Detroit school's Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
She heads a study of the potential role of polychlorinated biphenyls in the progression of breast cancer. A $418,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health supports the work. PCBs were banned in 1979 but once were widely used in industry. They tend to accumulate in the body fat of those who consume them.
Runge-Morris also has received $357,000 to study the role of the liver enzyme SULT2A1 in heart disease, cholesterol metabolism and diabetes.
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