Programme(s) to which this project applies: |
☑ MPhil/PhD | ☑ MRes[Med] | ☒ URIS |
Objective and Significance:
Precision cancer medicine is the tailoring of therapeutic strategies based on the genomic profile of the tumor. Successful implementation of precision cancer medicine requires identification and characterization of genomic aberrations that can be markers to effectively guide therapeutic decisions. The project aims to identify such genomic aberrations that promote tumorigenesis and alter responses to drugs.
Research Plan and Methodology:
Functional consequences downstream of the aberrations will be examined through analysis of omics data and experimental investigations including cell-based functional assays, expression/signaling profiling and drug sensitivity assays.
Dr LWT Cheung, School of Biomedical Sciences
Dr Lydia Cheung has a keen interest in genomic characterization and the associated signalling of cancer, through which we will understand the biology of treatment response and drug resistance. We have identified a number of genomic alterations that may inform therapeutic responses.
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