Robert W. Sobol was named associate director for basic research and co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University. In this role, he leads efforts toward continued growth of the basic science program and will serve as the co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program. He is also a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine.
Working with human breast and lung cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have charted a molecular pathway that can lure cells down a hazardous path of duplicating their genome too many times, a hallmark of cancer cells.
