Dr. Wei Xu (left) and new Komen Fellow Dr. Eui-Jun Kim (right).
Eui-Jun Kim, a post-doctoral fellow training in the laboratory of Wei Xu (Messerschmidt Professor of Oncology), was awarded a $185,000 research fellowship from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to study triple-negative breast cancer, a devastating subtype of breast cancer for which the only current treatment option is chemotherapy.
Triple-negative refers to a breast cancer wherein the tumor cells lack expression of three key cancer markers: HER2, the estrogen receptor, and the progesterone receptor. Eui-Jun’s project will study how triple-negative breast cancer cells metastasize (spread) to other tissues in the body.
Additional highlights:
http://www.med.wisc.edu/news-events/uw-carbone-center-researcher-receive…
http://www.channel3000.com/health/susan-g-komen-funds-research-on-triple…