December 2022

ONCOLOGY

CME CREDIT: IDENTIFYING HOW GENES FUNCTION TO BETTER UNDERSTAND CANCER WITH MAZHAR ADLI, PHD

Featuring: ​Mazhar Adli, PhD​

Episode Summary

Understanding how genes function is a vital part of understanding how to better treat cancer. Research led by Mazhar Adli, PhD, is grounded in the development of a systematic approach to identify the function of each gene in the human body. His team aims to discover novel therapeutic drug combinations to prevent cancer development and chemotherapy resistance. ​
“Targeting all human genes and finding their functions in multicellular systems is a big task, is a big challenge … in the next five years, we hope to characterize thousands of genes, but more importantly, scale up these tools that we are developing so that in the next phase we can go after the entire 20,000 genes (in the human genome).” — Mazhar Adli, PhD 
Mazhar Adli, PhD, Associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Reproductive Science in Medicine, Member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University 

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