Contact:
Dr. John Milner
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
Phone: 301-496-0118
E-Mail: milnerj@mail.nih.gov

Objective of the Project:

The goal of this RFA is to create a new opportunity to expand and facilitate research to define the precise role of diet in cancer prevention.

This RFA will create a new multidisciplinary approach to resolving issues about the physiological significance of dietary components as regulators of genetic and epigenetic pathways involved with cancer. The establishment of these large-scale collaborative projects will simultaneously create programs of excellence that will serve as models for future research programs. This approach will embody new and innovative preclinical and clinical approaches to deciphering the role of nutrition in cancer prevention. These collaborative and integrative research programs are to expedite the delineation about how specific dietary components influence genetic pathways and allow for the utilization of this information to address more complex and synthetic questions that take into account the whole organism. It is anticipated that the information gained will provide guidance for the development of dietary intervention strategies for cancer prevention.