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Fall 2019

Crosley, Powel

Granulosa cell tumour (GCT) is a malignant sex-cord stromal cell form of ovarian cancer that constitutes ~5% of ovarian neoplasms. Current chemotherapy regimens are not effective enough in controlling recurrent GCT, and as a result ~80% of women who relapse will die of disease. ...

Spring 2012

Buckland, Timothy, W

In Canada, approximately 40% of the population will be diagnosed with cancer and 25% will die of this disease. In order to treat cancer more effectively, new prognostic and therapeutic targets need to be discovered. In breast cancer, the BH3 only protein BAD has been shown to correlate with...

Spring 2021

Fahed Elian

The transcription factors FOXC1, FOXQ1, and FOXF2 (FOX cluster on chromosome 6) are members of the forkhead family that play a role in a plethora of biological processes during development and tumorigenesis. Emerging studies in the last decade have suggested a role of the FOX cluster in breast...

Spring 2016

Bekele, Raie Taye

Tamoxifen is the accepted therapy for patients with estrogen receptor α (ERα)−positive breast cancer. However, clinical resistance to tamoxifen, as demonstrated by recurrence or progression on therapy, is frequent and precedes death from metastases. To improve breast cancer treatment it is vital...

Fall 2014

Qin, Li

Smallpox was eradicated using vaccinia viruses (VACV) as vaccines, including Dryvax, a calf-lymph vaccine derived from the New York City Board of Health (NYCBH) strain, and TianTan, a chicken egg cultured vaccine used exclusively in China. To take advantage of the next generation sequencing...

Fall 2021

Vallee, Gregory Thomas

Poxviruses encode many genes that are orthologs of cellular genes. These orthologs serve many functions, but those that are of most interest are ones that have evolved further and now serve an immune-evasion function. Such genes were likely first acquired by poxviruses through some form of...

Spring 2010

Gammon, Donald Brad

Despite the eradication of smallpox, poxviruses continue to cause human disease around the world. At the core of poxvirus replication is the efficient and accurate synthesis and repair of the viral genome. The viral DNA polymerase is critical for these processes. Acyclic nucleoside phosphonate...

Fall 2016

Chaurasiya, Shyambabu

Breast cancer (BrCa) is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide. Current therapies for BrCa are insufficient to cure metastatic disease and are often associated with debilitating side effects that severely deteriorate the quality of patients’...