Dr. Annette Khaled
Tackling Breast Cancer
Associate Professor Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences
Location: Physical Sciences Bldg., Room 161
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016 6:30 p.m. networking, drinks and appetizers with talk beginning at 7:00 p.m.
RSVP: https://www.cos.ucf.edu/cafe/
Dr. Khaled, has a master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Long Beach and a doctorate in molecular genetics and microbiology from the University Of Florida College Of Medicine. Khaled concentrates her efforts on metastatic breast cancer research.
Talk Abstract:
Breast cancer kills when cancerous cells invade vital organs like the brain or lungs. What is needed to reduce the death rate due to breast cancer is a personalized curative approach that is designed to attack the patient’s unique cancer without damaging healthy, normal tissue.
We address this problem through the discovery of CT20p, a new anti-cancer peptide. CT20p can be used alone or combined with current cancer drugs to better attack breast cancer and prevent it from recurring and spreading, without producing harmful side effects.
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