Code
01D02210
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Genetics
- Systems biology
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Medical and health sciences
- Molecular and cell biology
- Morphological sciences
- Oncology
- Morphological sciences
- Oncology
- Molecular and cell biology
- Morphological sciences
- Oncology
Keywords
p53
cancer
neuroblastoma
therapy
Project description
Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial childhood cancer and less than 2% of the tumors harbor a mutation in p53 at diagnosis. The study of p53 and understanding its signaling network is of paramount importance to design strategies for therapeutic intervention for this aggressive cancer. We are probing p53 pathway and aiming to identify possible p53-dependent and p53-independent molecular targeted therapy in neuroblastoma.