Join us for the next Imperial Science Cafe – Unearthing the hidden weaknesses of dormant cancer: Turning vulnerability into treatment at .
Evie Wren, PhD student , will explore how dormant cancer cells form, how they survive while under constant stress, and what keeps them alive. Using new laboratory models developed in the lab, they are identifying the key proteins these cells rely on to survive.
By targeting these survival processes, they hope to push dormant cells beyond their limits — causing them to die or preventing them from waking up. Ultimately, this research aims to reduce the number of patients who return to clinic with relapsed breast cancer by stopping the disease be-fore it has a chance to come back.
Dr. Erika Dorado works at the intersection of cancer bi-omarker discovery in body fluids and the development of innovative technologies for early cancer detection.
Her research focuses on studying cellular communication processes and tumour–host interactions mediated by tiny particles circulating in body fluids known as extracellular vesicles (EVs).
She will talk about her research on EVs and the novel EV-MASS technology for cancer detection, funded by CRUK.
For more information please contact Kelly Gleason.