Originally posted on Gainesville.com
Hyundai Hope on Wheels awarded University of Florida cancer researcher Wesley Bolch a $250,000 grant to support childhood cancer research.
Bolch is working on a technique to deliver radionuclides directly to bone tumors to spare normal bone tissue in children with bone cancers such as osteosarcoma and Ewing’s sarcoma.
Bolch is a professor of biomedical engineering with a joint appointment in the nuclear engineering program. He is also a member of the UF Shands Cancer Center.
He was one of 41 recipients of more than $10 million in grants awarded this month by Hyundai Hope on Wheels, a nonprofit supported by Hyundai Motor America and 800 dealers.
The grant was presented to Bolch Wednesday at Shands Hospital for Children at UF in a handprint ceremony in which young cancer patients put handprints on a white Hyundai Santa Fe.