In the largest grant ever to a Cancer Control and Prevention researcher at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, the National Institutes of Health have awarded $10 million to Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., to help determine men’s roles in spreading the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes deadly cervical cancer in women. The grant is the largest of its kind in the world. Up to this point in the world of cancer research, little has been done to study men’s roles in spreading the sexually transmitted organism linked to cervical cancer in women. The men will be followed every six months for four years. They need not have the HPV virus. But they must be willing to visit a clinic at Moffitt twice a year for the four-year study duration.
