Tansey’s Research Highlighted

Posted by vuit_admin on Monday, March 30, 2015 in Uncategorized .

Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered a cleft in a chromosome-binding protein that may hold the key to stopping most cancers in their tracks.

“MYC regulates thousands of genes involved in growth and duplication,” said lead author William Tansey, Ph.D., Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and professor of Cell and Developmental Biology. “It’s sort of the Holy Grail of the targeted cancer therapy world.”