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Drs. Chen and Stamnes receive Carver Collaborative Grant

Drs. Songhai Chen, MD, PhD and Mark Stamnes, PhD, Associate Professors in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, have been awarded a Carver Collaborative Grant. The project is titled “Identification of novel genetic determinants of endocrine resistance in breast cancer by an in vivo CRISPR-based screen”. It  will determine the role of candidate genes identified from a CRISPR-based screen in ER+ breast cancer progression and response to endocrine therapies, and elucidate the underlying mechanisms.

Date: 
Monday, September 17, 2018