NMT Grad Joins Cancer Research Group at Youngstown State
November 20, 2019
JamBar, the student newspaper of Youngstown (Ohio) State University published a feature article about NMT graduate D.r Severine Van slambrouck. Jambar contributor Tina Kalentis interviewed Dr. Van slambrouck for the article.
Here is an excerpt of the article with a link to the full article at the bottom of
this page.
(Pictured at right is Dr. Severine Van Slambrouck in this NMT file photo).
A leading researcher in the fight against breast and prostate cancer, Severine Van slambrouck has joined Youngstown State University.
Van slambrouck, director of research, compliance and initiatives at YSU, started her journey in cancer research 20 years ago.
“My research is basic cancer research, which means working in a lab with cells,” she said. “There are two projects that I’ve always done. One is drug discovery: I work with organic chemists that make a molecule, and then I test these molecules on cancer cells to see whether it stops the cancer cells from growing.”
The second part of Van slambrouck’s research is trying to understand why cancer cells metastasize ...
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