A team from the University of Houston and MD Anderson Cancer Center is working to find early markers for ovarian cancer. Backed by a $1.2 million Department of Defense grant, a team led by Tianfu Wu, associate professor of biomedical engineering at UH, is studying autoantibodies that target a tumor suppressor gene that's often mutated in cancers and serves as an early marker of ovarian cancer development. According to UH, the majority of women with ovarian cancer (70 percent and 75 percent) a...| InnovationMap
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