Dr. Melica Brodeur
Academic title(s):
Assistant Professor, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Oncology
Associate Member, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine
Current research:
Our laboratory’s overreaching mission is to improve the lives of those affected by gynecologic cancers. Our purpose is to determine important gaps in knowledge and to use basic science and clinical knowledge to address these unmet needs. Our objectives including understanding underlying mechanisms of cancer initiation/progression, identifying their vulnerabilities and their response/resistance to treatment as well as discovering promising effective and less toxic novel molecular targeted therapies.
General research orientation:
- Epigenetic modulation and tumor microenvironment
- Development and validation of predictive/prognostic biomarkers
- Development of a preclinical model platform for accurate prediction of therapeutic efficacy of targeted therapies in clinical trials
- Investigating novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of gynecologic cancers.
Research areas:
Cancer