Overview

• Florida’s Department of Health will begin accepting grant applications on Sept. 29 for the Florida Cancer Innovation Fund.
• This year’s awards will focus on prevention, emphasizing nutrition, meal timing, exercise and other modifiable behaviors.
• Officials framed the effort as backing studies that large pharmaceutical companies typically do not finance.
• University of Miami researchers are planning a clinical trial to test prolonged overnight fasting and meal timing in endometrial cancer.
• A separate $30 million, five-year Cancer Connect Collaborative Research Incubator will fund pediatric research at Nemours Children’s (Orlando), Wolfson Children’s (Jacksonville), Johns Hopkins All Children’s (St. Petersburg) and Nicklaus Children’s (Miami).