Celebrating 30 Years

Simon Gayther, PhD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

2021

 $

500000

 

Tower Senior Investigator Grant

Novel Drug Targets for High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer identified through Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Modeling of Disease

Faults in high risk genes cause high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC). This cancer is often lethal in patients. Novel drugs are needed to improve treatment and patient outcomes. We plan to use cells from individuals carrying high risk genes to develop precision models of their disease and then cutting edge methods in genomics and functional screens to identify novel therapeutic targets that can be tested for their potential to treat patients with HGSOC. Ultimately we expect these studies will improve survival rates in patients that get HGSOC because they carry faulty genes.

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