BETHESDA, MdThe National Cancer Institute (NCI) has launched its new antismoking initiative, Research in State and Community Tobacco Control Interventions, by awarding 12 grants totaling $13 million. The money will support the first year of 4-year research projects on local, state, and multistate tobacco prevention and control programs.
The first awards in the NCI program went to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; AMC Cancer Research Center, Denver; University of Illinois at Chicago; Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, Baltimore; and University of Massachusetts campuses at Amherst and Boston.
Grants also went to the University of Massachusetts Medical School; University of Minnesota School of Public Health; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Oregon Research Institute, Eugene; Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon; and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
