UCF researcher finds breast cancer-fighting compounds

A professor is one step closer to finding a new treatment for breast cancer, after developing two new promising compounds that he has already patented. James Turkson, an associate professor and researcher at UCF’s Biomolecular Science Center at its , has been working on the molecules for the past two years, thanks to a $1.7 million grant from the . When tested on lab mice, the compounds broke up a cancer-causing protein called STAT3 and disrupted the formation and spread of breast cancer tumors. Turkson now hopes to take his research, published in two academic journals, to the next level of development. “There have been [pharmaceutical] companies that have expressed…

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