![Pathology faculty members from the University of South Alabama, from left, Luis del Pozo-Yauner, M.D., Ph.D.; Debanjan Chakroborty, Ph.D.; and Seema Singh, Ph.D., were awarded grants from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama at a luncheon in early December.](https://marketingassetstorage.blob.core.windows.net/news/_newsCard1x/IMG_4182-resized.jpg?20221228120051)
The highly competitive grants provide each researcher $50,000 in funding per year for two years. The awards function as seed funding for early-stage studies, allowing researchers to generate the additional data needed to attract major national funding.