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Mathew Thakur, Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University

Caption: Mathew Thakur, Ph.D., of the department of radiology at Thomas Jefferson University, and colleagues received a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate a potentially revolutionary method that can stage prostate cancers and detect recurrent disease so accurately, it would significantly reduce the number of confirmation biopsies.

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