Natascia Marino named Breast Cancer Research Foundation Investigator at Indiana University

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NATASCIA MARINO was named a Breast Cancer Research Foundation Investigator at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Marino, also an assistant research professor of medicine, is an investigator with the Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center. Her research focuses on the normal breast and how it relates to the development of breast cancer. The Komen Tissue Bank is the only repository in the world for normal breast tissue and matched serum, plasma and DNA, for the studying of normal tissue.

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