A piggy-back screen for genes involved in cancer epigenetics

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1012644

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Cancer can be caused not only by mutations in genes, but also by changes to our epigenome, which controls whether genes are on or off. There is much still to learn about the epigenome. We have developed a method to identify epigenome regulators. The epigenome is disrupted in cancer, but it is not know whether this starts tumour growth. I will use mutant mice to study this and analyse human cancers for mutations in epigenome regulators. This may lead to preventative screening and new treatments.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $302,123.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cancer | cancer genetics | epigenetics | gene-environment interaction | genomic instability | health screening | longitudinal study | preventive medicine | susceptibility genes | tumourigenesis

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