Dr Ahmed Ahmed, Co-author and Professor of Gynaecology Oncology at the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and the
head of the Ovarian Cancer Cell Laboratory, at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford, said: «Our first observations of evidence of the role of NMD in ovarian cancer were tantalizing.
Blocking a protein found on the
surface of ovarian cancer cells could prevent or reduce the spread of the disease to other organs, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Half a continent away, Buckanovich was doing his own studies on the role that the same protein played in the growth
of ovarian cancer cells in his lab at the University of Michigan.