YK-4-279 turns off mutant cancer gene in animals with leukemia

Friday, October 9, 2015 - 11:00 in Health & Medicine

A compound discovered and developed by a team of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers that halts cancer in animals with Ewing sarcoma and prostate cancer appears to work against some forms of leukemia, too. That finding and the team’s latest work was published online Oct. 8 in Oncotarget. The compound is YK-4-279, the first […]

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