Attempting to inhibit breast cancer proliferation

Hi everyone! My name is Alexandra Hauser-Kawaguchi and I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Western University. I work in Dr. Len Luyt’s lab at London Health Sciences Centre’s London Regional Cancer Program. You may remember seeing my blog post last year. Since then, I’ve continued to study the interactions between the […]

Discovering and developing new peptide-based drugs for breast cancer

Hi everyone! My name is Alexandra Hauser-Kawaguchi. I’m a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry at Western University and I work at London Health Sciences Centre’s London Regional Cancer Program under the supervision of Len Luyt, PhD. Our lab focuses on peptide-based chemistry. Peptides are strands of less than 50 amino acids. When there […]