Danny Dhanasekaran, of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research in the School of Medicine, has been awarded $120,000 for the first year of support with total funding estimated at $330,000 for the period June 1, 2007, to May 31, 2009 pending the availabilty of additional federal funds, by the National Institute for Cancer Research for the project "G-Protein Signaling in Pancreatic Cancer."