(Harrisburg) -- A new grant is expected to help some midstate doctors research a virus that's been found to have killed breast cancer cells. Doctor Craig Meyers and a team of researchers at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey have been awarded $100,000 from the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition. Meyers' work focuses on the AAV2 virus, which has killed breast cancer cells at every stage in tissue culture dishes in his lab. He says the funding will help advance the project, which he's been working on for years. "We applied for funding from the NIH, from the Komen Foundation, from the Department of Defense, and everywhere we could," he says. "We got comments that this is just too good. They didn't believe it." But Meyers says it could be years before the virus is tested on human breast cancer cells. The announcement was made at the coalition's annual conference yesterday in Harrisburg. The event drew hundreds of breast cancer survivors and doctors and featured a variety of workshops and other programs.