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(Video) Meet Your Neighbor: UCLA Researcher Works to Fight Cancer

Patch takes a tour of the campus' Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center on Friday where Brentwood resident Heather Christofk is on the front lines in the battle against the disease.

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a research grant to UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The NIH awarded Heather Christofk's lab $1.5 million to fund her research on the metabolism of cancer cells for the next five years.

Christofk, a Brentwood resident, gave Patch a tour of her campus lab.

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