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November 20, 2006

OSU cancer project apparently in limbo

Columbus Dispatch, November 20, 2006

Ohio State University officials have worked for at least two years to bring a rare, expensive cancer-treatment machine to central Ohio. University President Karen A. Holbrook included a statement about particle therapy in her 2005 State of the University speech, and university leaders talked about it to state officials and doctors at other hospitals. Now, however, university leaders won't talk about the project, and uncertainty about how to pay for it might be the reason. Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Columbus Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University and Battelle were named in the 2006 Third Frontier proposals as possible partners in the Ohio State project. Read article.

Posted by: Heidi Cool, November 20, 2006 03:18 PM | News Topics: Columbus Dispatch, Health, Research