A personal calling guides postdoctoral fellow to research tumor evolution in breast cancer
For postdoctoral fellow Rachel Dittmar, Ph.D., cancer research is more than just business. It’s personal.
Having lost her grandmother to metastatic breast cancer and her mother to duodenal cancer – both died at age 53 – Dittmar chose to focus her postdoctoral research on studying tumor evolution. She works in the Navin Lab at MD Anderson under the guidance and mentorship of Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., chair of Systems Biology.  ...
