Screening EGFR and GAK Inhibitors in Chordoma

A major therapeutic avenue for chordoma is targeting the receptor tyrosine kinase, EGFR. Its ligand, EGF, is overexpressed as a transcriptional target of Brachyury and polysomy of EGFR’s region of chromosome 7 is frequent in chordoma. To this extent I, in collaboration with SGC-UNC’s post-doc Chris Asquith, am working on the profiling of a number Read More …

Chordoma: A Brief Background

Greetings! My first post here will be a brief introduction. More in-depth experiment and data posts are coming soon! I am a post-doctoral research associate in the UNC Catalyst for Rare Diseases1. Throughout my education and training, I have been interested in cancer – I worked on epigenetics of ovarian cancer as an undergraduate and Read More …