MUSC receiving $130,000 in cancer research grants

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Medical University of South Carolina is receiving $130,000 to help research cancer in children.

Officials of the Charleston medical school and local Hyundai dealers are announcing the two grants on Wednesday.

One grant of $100,000 to the university’s Children’s Hospital Fund will be used to study whether inhibiting enzymes in neuroblastomas are effective in treating the tumors that develop in the nerve tissue of infants and children.

Another $30,000 grant will be used to study how the immune system recovers and to reduce infection after stem cell transplants for cancer.

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.