Dr. Valastyan [Harry Kriegel Fellow] seeks to uncover novel regulators of breast cancer metastasis. He has devised a novel experimental system that is capable of defining and exploiting the phenotypic heterogeneity and genetic diversity that exists within tumor cell populations. He anticipates that these studies will provide insights that further our comprehension of metastatic progression and suggest novel targets for the diagnosis and/or treatment of human breast cancer.

 

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Project Title: "A novel system for the unbiased discovery of genes that regulate breast cancer metastasis"

Institution: Harvard Medical School

Sponsor(s) / Mentor(s): Joan S. Brugge, PhD

Cancer Type: Breast

Research Area: Invasion and Metastasis