Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Rebecca Smith, and Students (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Rebecca Smith, and Students

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In breakthrough research on breast cancer, a team at the University of Illinois discovered that higher levels of the nuclear transport gene XPO1 indicate when a patient is likely to be resistant to the popular drug tamoxifen. The team, from left, food science and human nutrition professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan; graduate students Karen Chen, Kinga Wrobel and Eylem Kulkoyluoglu; and epidemiology professor Rebecca Smith.

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