Sara Buhrlage, PhD

Targeting ‘undruggable’ initiating events in AML

Acute myeloid leukemia is a devastating illness with approximately 600 pediatric and 13,000 adult diagnoses, and 10,000 deaths, yearly. In this proposal we will develop prototype drugs that destroy the aberrant components, or proteins, within the cell that drive the malignant phenotype laying the groundwork for development of first-in-class drugs.