Episode 42 – Mia Huang: How sugar biology can help diagnose and treat cancer

March 2023 | 19 min 46 sec

Professor Mia Huang is based in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Scripps Research, where her lab explores how vital sugar molecules in the body orchestrate complex biological events. Listen in as we discuss deciphering cancer cell signals to develop new therapies, engineering red blood cells for transfusions and how to become a master of strategy.

Episode topics: sugars, glycans, cellular communication, immune system, cancer, cancer metastasis, tissue regeneration

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