Education:
9/01 —
9/03 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital, Memphis, TN
8/97 —
8/01 PhD, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR.
8/93 —
5/97 BS, University of Dallas, Irving, TX.
Research Interests:
My research interests
include a project that was started during my postdoc in Dr. Susan
Kadlubar’s laboratory. Most of the chemotherapeutic strategies for
treating breast cancer involve generating reactive oxygen species (ROS)
to kill the tumor cells by initiating apoptosis. Cellular ROS is
regulated by antioxidant mechanisms. In cancer, some antioxidant
enzymes are elevated to protect the tumor cell from the highly oxidative
environment necessary to promote tumor growth. I am interested to see
the relationship between these antioxidant pathways and response to
chemotherapy, and if genetic variation within key enzymes of these
pathways play a role in that response.
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