Pengda Liu, PhD (IMAGE)

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Pengda Liu, PhD

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UNC Lineberger's Pengda Liu, PhD, and colleagues have discovered a gene, OTUD7A, that impacts the development of Ewing sarcoma, a bone cancer that occurs mainly in children, as well as a compound that shows potential to block OTUD7A protein activity.

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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

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