University of South Alabama President Gordon Moulton makes a point in a recent meeting with leaders of the Alabama Legislature in which the University thanked lawmakers for $3 million in additional state support this year for the USA Mitchell Cancer Institute. Shown clockwise from lower left are Moulton; Rep. Jim Barton, R-Mobile, chairman of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee; Rep. Jay Love, R-Montgomery, chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee; USA legislative liaison Happy Fulford; George Talbot of the Press-Register; House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn; Rep. Jamie Ison, R-Mobile, chair of the Mobile House delegation; and Rep. Victor Gaston, R-Mobile, House Speaker Pro Tempore. In addition to conducting cancer research, the USA Mitchell Cancer Research Institute this year treated more than 6,000 individual patients representing 55,000 patient treatment sessions. The USAMCI is the only academic cancer research center on the upper Gulf Coast.