Ashley Volaric, M.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Deputy Program Leader for the UVM Cancer Center’s Cancer Host and Interactions research program, was recently awarded a K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
The grant mechanism provides protected time for mentored cancer research and career development activities. In recent years, only 16 percent of NCI K08 grant applications have been funded, and Dr. Volaric is one of only two clinical scientists at UVM who currently have a K08—and the only NCI K08.
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Research like this has contributed to the University of Vermont’s designation by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as an R1 institution, placing it in the top tier of research universities in the U.S.
