GRANT awarded!The Lamar Lab was awarded a 2-yr $155,000 grant from The EHE Foundation to Identify circulating EHE biomarkers that can be used to track disease progress and monitor treatment efficacy. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Sandro Pasquali at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori.
Paper Accepted: Ryan Kanai's thesis work was accepted for publication in the Journal Cancers. This paper shows thatAMPK represses EHE cell growth through inhibition of mTOR and by promoting TAZ-CAMTA1 activity. See Here
GRANT awarded!The Lamar Lab was awarded a 2-yr $100,000 grant from The Melanoma Research Alliance for a project focused on identifying drugs that can be repurposed as treatments for Acral Melanoma.
GRANT awarded!The Lamar Lab was awarded a 1-yr $25,000 grant from The Louis Sklarow Charitable Trust to develop a drug repurposing pipeline for rare cancers.