Rice wins NIH funding for oral-cancer test

Grand Opportunity grant funds rapid saliva test using lab-on-a-chip

		IMAGE: John McDevitt holds the prototype lab-on-a-chip card. Click here for more information.

HOUSTON -- (Nov. 5, 2009) -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers in Rice University's new BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) a $2 million Grand Opportunity (GO) grant to develop a fast, inexpensive test for oral cancer that a dentist could perform simply by using a brush to collect a small sample of cells from a patient's mouth.