Meet Valentina Zuco, first author of a new paper from Nadia Zaffaroni @IstTumori & colleagues that demonstrated the efficacy of new drug combination for desmoplastic small round cell #tumour in #PatientDerivedXenograft
Interview & research article below:
👩🏼🔬https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/16/6/dmm050313/316732/
📰https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/16/6/dmm049649/316733/
First person – Valentina Zuco
ABSTRACT. First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Valentina Zuco is first author on ‘ Effects of irinotecan plus trabectedin on a desmoplastic small round cell tumor patient-derived xenograft’, published in DMM. Valentina is a scientist in the lab of Nadia Zaffaroni at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Tumori, Milan, Italy, investigating patient-derived tumor models to identify new therapeutic strategies for patients with rare cancers to be translated into clinical trials.
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