Cédric Blanpain, young research leader at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, proposes a new approach to define the role of stem cells in the onset and developement of skin cancer. He received a Starting Grant in 2007 from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC is the first European funding body set up to support investigator-driven frontier research in any scientific domain, including social sciences. The ERC provides funding for the very best established researchers or up-and-coming research talents who are working or moving to work in Europe, regardless of their current place of work, nationality and age.
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Research Project: Stem cells in skin cancer initiation and growth
Stem cells have been hypothesized to be the cells at the origin of cancer as
they reside and self-renew in tissues for extended periods of time,
increasing their lifetime risk of accumulating the oncogenic mutations
required for cancer formation. However, for the vast majority of cancers,
the ... Distributed by Tubemogul.