A $6 million state grant for a research program that will focus on liver cancer among Hispanics/ Latinos in the Rio Grande Valley “is just a drop in the bucket – there will be more (research money) coming,” says Pharr Mayor Dr. Ambrosio Hernández, who serves as a member of the Oversight Committee, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).The $6 million CPRIT grant (RP230419), announced on Friday, February 24, 2023, will help launch the UTRGV School of Medicine’s South Texas Center of Excellence in Cancer Research, the first CPRIT-supported cancer research center in the region.The South Texas Center ...