UAB joins elite brain cancer research group

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Mon, 07/07/2008 - 23:00

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) The Ivy Genomics-Based Medicine Project is designed to improve treatment for malignant brain tumors by striving to unravel the genetic differences between gliomas.

Consortium members like UAB will categorize tumors using sophisticated molecular profiling and, for the first time, test each tumor against a wide spectrum of treatments to match DNA markers with cancer-fighting response.

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