Lung and Upper Aerodigestive Cancers Research Group
- Identified mir29c miRNA as a prognostic marker for mesothelioma
- Identified and validated SMRP (Mesothelin) as a diagnostic marker of mesothelioma
- Established three standard reference sets for rapid triage and validation of markers for lung cancer detection
- Demonstrated decreased osteopontin levels after NSCLC resection and rise with disease recurrence for monitoring of relapse
- Identification of Mass Spectrometry 9-panel for lung cancer detection
- Development of aptamer technology for early lung cancer detection
- Development of 8-oxyguanine DNA glycosylase (8OGG), Alkyl-adenine DNA Gycosylase and APE1 Endonuclease DNA repair capacity-based assays as risk measures of lung cancer
- Identification of TCF21 and Ras-related GTPase gene methylation as diagnostic markers of lung cancer
- Identification of miRNA profile in sputum for early lung cancer detection.
- Identification of an autoantibody panel of markers (c-Myc, Cyclin A, Cyclin B1, Cyclin D1, CDK2 and Suvivin) for early detection of lung cancer.
