Research Project: Molecular Biography of Lung Cancer Metastasis
Grant Awarded:
Senior Research Training Fellowship
Research Topic:
mechanisms of metastasis
Research Disease:
lung cancer
It is unclear as to how lung cancer cells gain the ability to invade into surrounding tissue, spread to distant or-gans, and successfully form metastases. Dr. Chuang's research will characterize the gene expression changes that drive lung cancer invasion and metastasis by assigning a unique barcode ID to every tumor cell to allow the easy connection of the primary lung cancer to the metastases it produced.
