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Could a Cardiac Drug Stop Breast Cancer Metastasis?

By January 17, 2023No Comments

Triple-negative breast cancer is notoriously hard to treat. Assistant Professor Madeleine Oudin’s lab at the School of Engineering studies how to tame those cancer cells into submission. With Laidlaw Scholar Deepti Srinivasan, a senior biomedical engineering major and an aspiring physician, Oudin investigated how manipulating potassium channel activity could alter those cells’ bioelectric signals—making the cancer less likely to spread.