Research on skin cancer: ERC funds studies on stem cells
Cédric Blanpain, young research leader at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, proposes a new approach to define the role of stem cells in the onset and developement of skin cancer. He received a Starting Grant in 2007 from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC is the first European funding body set up to support investigator-driven frontier research in any scientific domain, including social sciences. The ERC provides funding for the very best established researchers or up-and-coming research talents who are working or moving to work in Europe, regardless of their current place of work, nationality and age.
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Research Project: Stem cells in skin cancer initiation and growth
Stem cells have been hypothesized to be the cells at the origin of cancer as
they reside and self-renew in tissues for extended periods of time,
increasing their lifetime risk of accumulating the oncogenic mutations
required for cancer formation. However, for the vast majority of cancers,
the … Distributed by Tubemogul.
Duration : 3 min 20 sec
