A research team led by scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has discovered a molecule that inhibits the growth and metastasis of pancreatic cancer cells through the iron metabolism pathway. Their findings, recently published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, pave the way toward the development of a new drug candidate for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Scientists from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have shed light on a different way of overcoming mechanisms of resistance to specific therapeutic agents used to treat cancer. In a new article published in the journal Cell Reports, the researchers propose a new approach to cancer treatment based on the way different cancer cells divide.

Throughout the highs and lows of 2021, there remained one constant – a resolute, unswerving desire by faculty and staff at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center to keep our neighbors in Buffalo, Western New York and beyond safe, supported and successful.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Andrew Ray, PhD, PT, Rehabilitation Specialist, Associate Professor of Oncology in Cancer Prevention and Control has been recognized by APTA Oncology with the organization’s 2021 Research Award for enduring and outstanding work in oncologic physical therapy.