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Nate Lewis Receives Grant to Study Breath-Based Detection of Lung Cancer
May 8, 2009
 The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative recently announced the recipients of the 2008 Futures grants, which are awarded to support interdisciplinary research on complex systems including ecosystems, financial markets, communication networks, and biology. Among the recipients are Nate Lewis and Tuan Duong, who will receive a grant of $50,000 to study the use of an "electronic nose" for breath-based detection of lung cancer.
Lewis, Caltech's Argyos Professor and professor of chemistry, and Duong, a JPL researcher who currently serves as president and CEO of Adaptive Computation LLC, will examine whether a low-power, portable array of vapor sensors can detect and identify mixtures of volatile, organic, breath-based biomarkers that have been identified as diagnostic signatures suitable for screening for early-stage lung cancer.
The 23 projects chosen by the Futures Initiative represent a wide range of approaches to interdisciplinary research. "We have selected many bold and innovative proposals and believe these collaborations will result in promising findings," said H. Eugene Stanley, the 2008 Keck Futures conference chair and director of the Center for Polymer Studies at Boston University.
Established through a $40 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation in 2003, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative is designed to enable researchers from different disciplines "to focus on new questions and entirely new research, and to encourage better communication among scientists as well as between the scientific community and the public."
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