University of California, Los Angeles
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Novel understanding and treatment of Acute Leukemia
One of the major defects in acute leukemia is a block in differentiation preventing the young blast cells from becoming mature useful blood cells. As a result, the patient dies of infection, severe anemia, and hemorrhage. We believe that we have discovered one of the causes of this block in differentiation. By understanding this abnormality, we now have a new target that can be attacked therapeutically.