New GBM Study PRESERVE Receives $250,000 Grant from NICO Corporation
BOSTON, March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NICO Corporation has awarded a $250,000 Investigator Initiated Study (IIS) grant to Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, MBA, FASCO, deputy director, chief scientific officer and chief of solid tumor medical oncology at Miami Cancer Institute, to improve the understanding of glioblastoma (GBM) heterogeneity through immediate intraoperative biological preservation of brain tissue using the NICO Myriad® and Automated Preservation System® (APS). NICO is participating in the 4th Annual Glioblastoma Drug Development Summit in Boston beginning today where they will showcase its Myriad and APS technologies.
- GBM study uses immediate biologically preserved tissue to better understand regional differences in tumor heterogeneity.
- PRESERVE GBM is a two-year, multi-center study with the primary objective of assessing important scientific differences in the heterogeneity of GBM tumors from 120 patients.
- The NICO IIS grant program is dedicated to supporting novel pre-clinical and clinical research efforts related to improved patient and economic outcomes using NICO technologies.
- Learn more about the IIS program, clinical study areas of interest and how to apply for a grant .