Endocrine Abstracts

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) remains a highly lethal malignancy. Therapeutic strategies aimed at targeting pancreatic cancer cells have failed. We hypothesized that such pitfall is due to the functional heterogeneity of this tumor which comprises both cancer and stromal cells. It is now recognized that cancer-induced but host-derived stromal events support tumor growth and chemoresistance. In order to reach efficacy with chemotherapies, we believe that stroma has to ...

Corinne Basquet is currently Research Director (DR2), INSERM U1037 – Cancer Research Center of Toulouse (CRCT), Toulouse France and is co-Leader of the Team ‘Protein synthesis & secretion in carcinogenesis’.In 1999, she had obtained her PhD from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA and also completed her post-docorate from there. In 2001, she was recruited as Rese...