A grant to the University of Windsor's Department of Kinesiology may reduce deaths from cancer.
The $100,000 in funding from CIBC will go to understand and prevent muscle wasting due to cancer and its treatment.
It's a condition known as Cancer Cachexia.
Research leader, Dr. Matthew Krause, says the results will benefit the community as well as help the students with their studies.
"Part of that money will be used to acquire some equipment and acquire the supplies that re needed to actually run these types of lab studies," says Krause. "This type of stuff isn't particularly cheap, right, it costs a fair bit of money to make these things happen."
He adds the goal is to help cancer patients retain their body strength.
"Working on strategies to prevent that loss of body mass particularly skeletal-muscle mass, that's what we're trying to do," says Krause. "So exercise is one possibility, there's various other biological mechanisms that we're interested in pursuing. So that'll be the backbone of those lab studies."
Dr. Krause says some of the funding will also go to graduate students as scholarships.