School of Kinesiology professor Jürgen Konczak, Ph.D., director of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory (HSCL) has been awarded a grant from the Children’s Cancer Research Fund to study somatosensory deficits in children who survived or are undergoing a cancer treatment.

The $99,800 grant will support Kinesology Ph.D. candidate Jessica Holst-Wolf’s postdoctoral position, and is an extension of her dissertation research. Holst-Wolf and Konczak, who is the PI on the grant, will team with Lucie Turcotte, M.D., from Pediatric Oncology at the U of M. The research team will use assessment technologies developed in HSCL to measure somatosensory dysfunction and apply them to pediatric cancer survivors, which will help to clarify the relationship between chemotherapy and sensory impairment.