The Hormel Institute has announced Rebecca Morris, leader of the Stem Cells and Cancer research section, has received a one-year, $100,000 grant from the Minnesota Chemoprevention Consortium to study bone marrow-derived cells as potential new targets for preventing skin cancer.

The consortium includes the University of Minnesota's Hormel Institute, Mayo Clinic, the U of M's Masonic Cancer Center and Hormel Foods Consortium. The consortium goes by the moniker "MC^2."

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