Anna Grabowska

Contact

• workBiodiscovery Institute
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 823 1135
• fax0115 823 1137
• anna.grabowska@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

Interests

• Development of patient-relevant pre-clinical models of cancer
• Influence of stroma on cancer cells
• Role of paracrine signalling in cancer
• Bioluminescent/fluorescent reporters for real-time imaging
• Application of interfering RNA technology for target validation

Current Research Projects

• Establishing patient-derived xenograft models
• Pre-clinical models of cancer for target validation
• Role of paracrine signalling in induction of EMT and the cancer stem cell-like phenotype
• Regulation of the mesenchymal stem cell niche
• Polycations for nucleic acid delivery in cancer
• Reporters for real-time monitoring of biological processes during cancer development