Dr. Lahvic is investigating how neighboring normal cells will try to impede the growth of cancer cells, and how a tumor escapes these controls. Dr. Lahvic aims to understand the genetic predispositions to cancer and find clues to a new way of preventing and treating cancer: activation of normal cells to directly fight a nearby tumor. While this work could hold relevance for all carcinomas, she is focusing on Ras mutations, which are especially common in pancreatic and colon cancers.
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PUBLISHED RESEARCH
Lahvic JL, Hariharan IK. Harnessing epithelial homeostatic mechanisms to fight cancer. Mol Biol Cell. 2019.