Study identifies potential treatment target for aggressive lung tumors

The research was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by Xiaochao Tan, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.

The team's findings build on their efforts to better understand the role of the Golgi apparatus in a specific subtype of non-small cell lung cancer, the most common type of lung cancer that is often diagnosed after it has spread to other parts of the body.

Other authors include: Guan-Yu Xiao, PhD of the University of Kentucky; Derrick L. Cardin, PhD, and Yuting Xu, MS, of Tulane University School of Medicine; Chao Wu, PhD, and Biyao Zhou, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; and William K. Russell, PhD, of The University of Texas Medical Branch.

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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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