On January 15, WAAY TV spoke with Sara Cooper, PhD about the challenges we face in finding a cure for cancer.
At the State of the Union address, President Obama announced a national effort to find innovative treatments for cancer and Vice President Biden has been put in charge of leading this “moonshot” effort.
This year in Alabama, $6.3 million worth of cancer research grants are being used to find cures for cancer.
The story aired on both WAAY TV and Fox 54. Watch the full story here.
Faculty Investigator Sara Cooper, PhD, and her lab recently published results a promising study identifying several potential targets for reversing chemoresistance in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, a deadly type of pancreatic cancer.
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Scientists at HudsonAlpha published a paper in Clinical Cancer Research describing the results of a study that explored gene expression and metabolic signatures in ovarian cancer to discover both markers of treatment response and potential therapeutic targets.
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