NMT Grad Joins Cancer Research Group at Youngstown State

November 20, 2019


Dr. Severine van Slambrouck earned her doctorate at NMT and has 20 years experience in cancer research

 

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. 

Severine Van slambrouck file photoHere 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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