Sanford Burnham Prebys recruits rising star in cancer research
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 08:41
in Health & Medicine
Brooke Emerling, Ph.D., has joined the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) as an assistant professor in the Cancer Metabolism and Signaling Networks Program. She has identified a promising new therapeutic target for triple-negative breast cancer and other cancers driven by loss of the tumor suppressor p53--PI5P4Ks, a class of lipid kinases.