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BBI Grant Leads to NIH Funding Enabling Dr. Taran Gujral to Study FLC and Other Rare Cancers

By November 1, 2023November 17th, 2023No Comments

Fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC) is a liver cancer that typically affects teenagers and adults under age 40 with healthy livers undamaged by alcohol or viruses. It is thought to occur in about one in five million people in the United States.

Interestingly, Dr. Taran Gujral, an associate professor in the Human Biology Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, had never heard of FLC when he arrived at the Hutch seven years ago. Today, because of three factors, this rare cancer consumes a substantial amount of Gujral’s time: