Mentor: Stephen S. Hecht, PhD
Current Position: Scientist, Philip Morris USA, Richmond, VA
Research Project: "Lung Cancer Chemoprevention"
Specific Aims:
Identify proteins with differing levels of expression in the lungs of mice that have been treated with chemopreventive agents.
Publications:
Lahti DW, Hoekman JD, Tokheim AM, Martin BL, Armitage IM. Identification of mouse brain proteins associated with isoform 3 of metallothionein. Protein Science 2005; 14:1151-1157.
Kassie F, Anderson LB, Scherber R, Yu N, Lahti D, Upadhyaya P, Hecht, SS. Indole-3-carbinol inhibits 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone plus benzo(a)pyrine-induced lung tumorigenesis in A/J mice and modulates carconogen-induced alterations in protein levels. Cancer Research 2007; 67:6502-11.
Last updated 3-31-2008