The Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer SPORE grant follows another National Institutes of Health grant for $10.5 million to the UW --funding a multi-center, five-year investigation into the basic causes of why prostate cancer metastasizes, or spreads, to the bone. Lange is also the principal investigator on that grant. The two grants total $23.2 million, and give area researchers unprecedented opportunities in their ongoing efforts to better understand prostate cancer and develop improved therapies.