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Our Role & Impact
  1. Our Role & Impact
  2. RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH HMRI
  3. miRNA regulation of growth, invasion and treatment response in triple negative breast cancer

miRNA regulation of growth, invasion and treatment response in triple negative breast cancer

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy that develops in women, responsible for the highest cancer-related death rates. While the prognosis is good if the cancer is limited to the breast; once a patient has developed metastatic disease they are essentially incurable.

The overall aim of the project is to further characterize the role of these miRNAs in TNBC. Specifically, we aim:

  1. To determine the function of the identified miRNAs in the growth and invasiveness of breast cancer cells.
     
  2. To determine if the miRNAs can alter the response to of breast cancer to anti-cancer therapies
Researchers 

Dr Kelly Avery-Kiejda, Ms Andrea Mathe, Professor Rodney Scott 

Research Area 
Cancer
Project type 
Project Grant
Year of funding 
2013