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Acute Myelogenous Leukemia with maturation

One Punch Isn’t Enough

November 7, 2023

BBS student Eileen Ablondi is featured in a Harvard Medicine News article.

Cancer cells are often a mess of mutations. About 20 to 25 percent of cancers involve mutations in a complex of molecules called SWI/SNF. Yet drugs designed to block SWI/SNF activity haven’t always worked as expected.... Read more about One Punch Isn’t Enough

Liang Chang in lab

Turning Cancer on Itself

July 5, 2023

As a PhD student in biological and biomedical sciences, Chang is pioneering a new approach to cancer treatment, one that targets the genes required for the disease’s growth and survival. If he’s successful, his research could effect a paradigm shift in the treatment of some types of cancer—saving countless lives in the process.... Read more about Turning Cancer on Itself