University of Michigan Scholar Receives Grant for Breast Cancer Research

Maria C. Katapodi, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, was awarded a three-year, $900,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for a research project to develop methods to increase cancer screening by young breast cancer survivors and their female relatives who are at high risk of developing breast cancer.

Dr. Katapodi is a graduate of the University of Athens in Greece. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in oncology from the University of California at San Francisco.