Home Department: Biology
Supported by: Dean of Research
Mentor: Dean Felsher, Medicine (Oncology) and Pathology

Oncogene addiction is the idea that turning off oncogenes causes tumor regression. Georgia is studying the concept of oncogene addiction on lipid metabolism genes. She will test this using both a kidney cancer cell line and mouse model.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 26, 2015:

Targeting Lipogenesis Suppresses Myc, Ras, and Bcr-Abl Lymphomas

Georgia Toal¹, Arvin Gouw¹, Dean W. Felsher¹
[Department of Medicine (Division of Oncology)¹, Stanford University]