PhD. Topics
Biomedical Research Center SAS
Topic
DNA methylation as prognostic biomarker in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
PhD. program
genetics
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Božena Smolková, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University
Annotation
Introducing novel techniques for detecting tumor-specific DNA methylation in the plasma of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Identifying prognostic and predictive molecular markers and validating their correlation between tumors and plasma. Exploring therapeutic targeting of selected markers using specific inhibitors in preclinical models of PDAC.