On Nov. 20, 2024, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) announced that it had approved $89 million through 22 grants to advance the state’s fight against cancer. The grants provided funding for a wide array of CPRIT Scholar recruitment awards, evidence-based prevention programs, and developmental research focusing on promising new treatments for cancer.

For example, the UT Southwestern Medical Center received a $4 million CPRIT Rising Star Scholar Award to recruit Daniel Addison, M.D. from The Ohio State University.  Dr. Addison is internationally recognized for his seminal work in the emerging field of cardio-oncology, which improves the understanding of the cardiovascular effects from targeted and immune-based cancer therapeutics and informs new approaches to prevent cardiovascular disease in cancer patients. 

CPRIT also approved $13.4 million for eight prevention programs providing cancer screening and early detection efforts in counties across Texas.  These grants deliver evidence-based clinical services to screen for cancer and pre-cancer in underserved populations who do not have adequate access to cancer early detection programs and health care.