Krizia Chambers, Graduate Student, Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. To help spread awareness of the different cancers that impact children, we will be profiling a different researcher each week to talk about the cancer they study and how they hope their research will help in the fight against childhood cancer.
What type of cancer are you researching?
My current research is focused on Osteosarcoma. The disease is a type of bone cancer that develops in children, teens, and young adults and originates in the cells that form the bones. The tumors that develop from this specific type of cancer cells mimic early forms of bone cells that normally help make new bone tissue, but the bone tissue in an osteosarcoma is not as strong as that of normal bones.