Exploring roles for microRNAs in cancer using bioinformatics and gene expression tools.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/571156

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

microRNAs are newly discovered chemicals that were the subject of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine. These chemicals decrease the amount of specific molecular ‘targets’ in cells, and play an important role in cancer. Currently we do not understand how these chemicals choose their targets, and we propose to use a computer-based approach to discover how they affect genes in cancer. This will improve our understanding of cancer and thereby lead to the discovery of novel anti-cancer therapies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $292,639.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Gene Expression

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Other Keywords

Bioinformatics | mRNA expression | mRNA stability | microarray | oncogene

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