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AU-KBC RESEARCH CENTRE Life Sciences Research Faculty

The Breast Cancer Research Group

- P.Gajalakshmi & S.Bagavathi

Research goals :

BRCA1 Mutation screening

To identify families with hereditary breast cancer

To screen for mutations in the BRCA1 gene among these breast cancer patients

To identify the carrier status among relatives of the affected individual

Suicide gene therapy

Characterization of breast cancer cell lines
Characterization of the bystander effect
Modelling of the role of gap junctions in the bystander effect