Professor James Tunnell and his laboratory recently received grants totaling over $1.1 million to further cancer research.

Tunnell and his Biophotonics Laboratory are conducting research on early skin cancer detection devices and a combined imaging and treatment system for pancreatic cancer. Funding for these projects will be supplemented through the Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program Award from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, a National Institutes of Health grant through the National Cancer Institute, and a National Institutes of Health grant through the National Center for Research Resources.