Scott Verbridge, associate professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech, and Barath Udayasuryan, an alumnus from the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, have discovered a characteristic of a common oral bacterium that relocates to pancreatic cancer tumors which may help guide future therapeutic interventions for treatment.
Kevan Shokat, a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San Francisco, has won the second annual Stephenson Global Prize for research in pancreatic cancer.
