Pilot funding awarded to Tatiana Belova and collaborators for breast cancer research
Dr Tatiana Belova (NCMM), Dr Salim Ghannoum (Oslo University Hospital) and Saikat Das Sajib (University of Tromsø) have been awarded the funding by the national network for breast cancer research
When cancer cells spread the lymph nodes are often the first location they spread to. For more than 80% of patients whose cancer has spread from its primary site to distant organs, the cancer cells have initially travelled via the lymph nodes.
Dr Tatiana Belova, a postdoctoral researcher in the Kuijjer group at NCMM, Dr Salim Ghannoum, a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr Xavier Tekpli at Oslo University Hospital and Saikat Das Sajib, a PhD student in the group of Dr Erik Knutsen at the University of Tromsø will investigate the interactions between the immune cells in the lymph nodes and breast cancer cells.