Georgia Cancer Center mobile lab gives high school students hands-on experience exploring cancer research
A mobile lab is rolling through high schools with the goal to educate and inspire the next generation of cancer researchers.
The overall goals of the Molecular Oncology & Biomarkers program are to understand the fundamental cellular and molecular processes that contribute to cancer development and progression.
Normal cells have intricate molecular mechanisms that control essential phenotypes such as differentiation, cell division and movement. The molecular pathways that control these phenotypes are disrupted in cancer cells as a result of the expression of oncogenes and loss of regulatory tumor suppressor genes. These events, which are often highly specific to individual types of cancer, disrupt specific molecular pathways that result in uncontrolled cell growth and loss of normal responses to extracellular signaling cues that result in tumor development and progression.
The research interests of the program can be divided into three broad themes:
Collectively these themes address important topics of tumor cell and molecular biology including
John K. Cowell PhD, DSc, FRCPath
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