Fifth year Tri-Institutional MD-PhD student, Sanjee Baksh, has received an F31 award from the National Cancer Institute for his project entitled Dissecting the role of serine metabolism in tumor initiating stem cells.
Sanjee is conducting his research in the laboratory of Elaine Fuchs at the Rockefeller University, in close collaboration with Dr. Lydia Finley at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His work focuses on understanding the functional role of metabolic reprogramming and nutrient signaling during the early stages of tumor formation, in particular how skin stem cells rewire their acquisition of the amino acid serine as they become oncogenic. These studies will identify metabolic bottlenecks for tumorigenesis and may have therapeutic implications for targeting tumor initiating stem cells.
Sanjee Baksh
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