Michael F. Press

 M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
Harold E. Lee Chair in Cancer Research

Keck School of Medicine
Department of Pathology

His laboratory research program has a focus on molecular gentic changes in cancer. The ongoing funded research activities include 1) studies of HER-2/neu gene amplification and over-expression in breast cancer as a predictor of responsiveness to therapy, 2) the relationship of molecular alterations in breast cancers of twins to environmental and genetic risk factors, 3) case-control studies of peri-menopausal women with invasive and intraductal breast carcinomas and past oral contraceptive use, 4) identification and characterization of novel genes associated with regulation of the G2-M phase transition of the cell cycle using a yeast expression system and 5) identification and characterization of genes differentially expressed in breast and ovarian cancers.

 

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