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Elliott awarded NCI K99 grant for Molecularly Guided Surgery

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Jonathan Elliott, PhD, was awarded a “Pathway to Independence” grant from the National Cancer Institute in August 2016.  Entitled “Molecularly Guided Surgery for Improved Resection of Glioblastoma Multiforme,” the grant project aims to accelerate Professor Elliott’s promising research career by building upon Dartmouth’s ongoing work in fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) with ABY-029, the agent approved by FDA for a first-in-human clinical trial.  These two-year grants are given to outstanding postdoctoral researchers to help them advance to tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions.  Funds support Dr. Elliott’s mentored-training program with a core group of NIH-funded researchers at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), including Dr. David Roberts, with Professors Keith Paulsen and Brian Pogue at the Thayer School of Engineering, and Dr. Jack Hoopes in the Geisel School of Medicine. Professor Elliott will conduct a pre-clinical research project to develop and evaluate a new approach to molecular-guided surgery – intraoperative receptor concentration imaging (iRCI).