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Yetunde presents at the Innovators of Tomorrow Symposium

Yetunde was invited to present her research project at the Innovators of Tomorrow Symposium that was held at the Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. This is a competitive, two-day career and networking event for trainees interested in a postdoctoral fellowship in cancer research.

Our lab was awarded a five-year R01 grant titled: Interleukin-1beta and AR-negative tumor cells in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer.

August 18, 2022 This new grant will support studies employing animal models of metastasis, human cell lines, PDX-derived cells and human tissue samples to ascertain the functional role of IL-1𝛽 in skeletal colonization of prostate cancer cells, discriminating between direct autocrine-paracrine effects on cancer cells and targeting cells of the tumor-associated bone stroma. Furthermore, we […]