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SCIENCE STUDIO: Jennifer K. Richer

  

  Jennifer K. Richer is Professor and Co-Director of the Cancer Center Pathology Core at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.  She is a UTEP alumnus, and she joins us to tell us about how her early work with parasites led to breast cancer research.  Richer walks us through the role of hormones in cancer cell reproduction, and how her research into hormones targets hormone receptors in cancer cells.

Aired May 15, 2016

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