September 2, 2022
MSU researcher awarded $2.5 million NIH grant to study mammary gland development
When thinking about why breast cancer develops, it is critical to understand how normal development works. Recently, the National Institutes of Health awarded MSU physiology professor Eran Andrechek a five-year, $2.5 million grant to fund his research project of defining the role of the repressor E2F5 gene in mammary gland development. in addition to a providing better understanding of the developmental biology, Andrechek hopes the findings will lead to further research on breast cancer.
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