Ashok Kumar, University of Houston Else and Philip Hargrove Endowed Professor of Drug Discovery at UH College of Pharmacy and director of the Institute of Muscle Biology and Cachexia (IMAGE)

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Ashok Kumar, University of Houston Else and Philip Hargrove Endowed Professor of Drug Discovery at UH College of Pharmacy and director of the Institute of Muscle Biology and Cachexia

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Ashok Kumar, Else and Philip Hargrove Endowed Professor of Drug Discovery at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy and director of the Institute of Muscle Biology and Cachexia, has received $3.2 million from the NIH to tackle Rhabdomyosarcoma, a malignant soft tissue sarcoma that has a higher incidence in young children, accounting for 8% of all pediatric cancers. 

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