Carol Bult receives $79k Maine Cancer Foundation grant
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August 22, 2008/Bar Harbor - Jax scientist Carol Bult, Ph.D., has received a $79,524 grant from the Maine Cancer Foundation to study gene development in lung cancer. Cancer is often associated with the inappropriate regulation of the same genes and pathways that are important for normal organ and tissue development. Her project will measure genomewide gene expression at 13 stages of normal lung development in mice and then compare the data to aberrantly expressed genes in human lung tumors. It is hoped that by using the comparative context of normal development will allow scientists to identify genes and pathways that are central to lung tumor initiation and survival. The results of the study will produce novel targets for future development of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for lung cancer, Jax scientists say. For more information contact Jennie Whitaker, 755-9470. |
