2023 LCRF Research Grant on Understanding Resistance in Lung Cancer
Trever Bivona, MD, PhD
University of California San Francisco
Research Project:
Characterization and therapeutic targeting of a tumor-tumor microenvironment network promoting resistance to targeted therapy in lung cancer
Summary:
The overall goal we aim to achieve in this project is to create an entirely new approach to treat lung cancer by developing a suite of precision therapies that are distinct in their mechanism of action against the tumor ecosystem and improve the effectiveness of current therapies against mutant EGFR, KRAS, and ALK as combination therapies, while critically maintaining safety and quality of life for patients. The work accomplished in this project could yield molecular treatments that better control, or potentially cure, lung cancer safely through improved precision medicine in the relatively near future.