Abigail
PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Expertise
Cancer biology, research, translational research
Project ideas
Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.
CD36 and Fatty Acid Metabolism as Therapeutic Targets in ER+ Breast Cancer
This project builds on previous work done in our lab where we showed that drug resistant breast cancer cells switch to fatty acid oxidation as a survival pathway. My project asks if we can target fatty acid uptake and production to starve the cancer cells and prevent disease recurrence.