Stuart Schreiber has been searching for vulnerabilities in treatment-resistant cancer cells. Recently, he found one.

The Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator published a new ground-breaking study, "Dependency of a therapy-resistant state of cancer cells on a lipid peroxidase pathway," in the July 2017 edition of Nature. The discovery "opens a potential new route to fight cancer in people who currently lack good treatment options because conventional ones don't work," according to a follow-up feature article in Chemical & Engineering News. 

Read the Study published in Nature

Read the Feature Article in Chemical & Engineering News

Arjun Raj, a researcher with the University of Pennsylvania, stressed the importance of Schreiber's research: "One of the most exciting findings is that treatment-resistant cancer cells have some convergent general principles that can be exploited therapeutically, instead of the case-by-case, whack-a-mole approach that is currently dominant [in fighting treatment-resistant cancer]. Identifying the GPX4 pathway raises many exciting therapeutic possibilities.”

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