RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- A $7.3 million grant will fund a groundbreaking breast cancer clinical trial at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, health officials said.

A team of researchers received a $7.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to fund a "novel" clinical trial targeting metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), according to a Thursday release from the university.

“I look forward to successful outcomes from this trial, especially because we try to eliminate the cells that are the root cause of the origin of cancer and its spread in patients with TNBC,” Vekata Lokesh Battula said.

Battula joined Massey as its assistant director of Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) Efforts and professor in the De

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