Indian American Cancer Researcher Selected for Fulbright Award
An Indian American cancer researcher at a Florida university has been selected for a J. William Fulbright award to conduct cancer research and training in India. Appu Rathinavelu , a cancer researcher at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was selected for the award July 8. He also serves as the associate dean for institutional planning and development at the campus’ College of Pharmacy and executive director at NSU’s Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research. The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State and is the government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Since its inception in 1946, the program has had more than 360,000 participants from over 180 countries. Rathinavelu holds patents in the U.S. and Japan for discovering a small organic anti-angiogenic molecule that starves tumors and other cancer cells, preventing blood flow that would otherwise help them grow. Called JFD, the molecul...