Understanding Functional Heterogeneity in Sarcomas
Funding Agency: CPRIT- First Time Tenure Track Award
Title: Understanding Functional Heterogeneity in Sarcomas
Status: Active
Period: 2016-2020
Role: Principal Investigator
Grant Detail: Relapse is the major problem in the clinic and understanding how tumors change or evolve at relapse is the focus of this grant. We will use the power of modeling tumors in zebrafish in combination with patient derived cell lines and tumors and murine xenograft models to define tumor heterogeneity. Zebrafish tumor models provide a unique discovery platform for in vivo drug screens, imaging and genetics. From these studies we hope to identify new pathways to target in rhabdomyosarcoma and new sarcoma models we have generated and our currently characterizing.
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