• Question: What type of study are you currently doing?

    Asked by anon-232897 to Varun on 18 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Varun Ramaswamy

      Varun Ramaswamy answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      Hi Kshaunish!

      I am currently working on finding the shape of a protein that’s really important in helping cancer cells do the one thing they love- cell division. So this protein is the reason the cancer cells keep growing and multiplying and infecting every organ in the body!

      But if I find the shape of this protein, I can design a drug that attacks it and de-activates it. So it will stop working and so the cancers will not be able to divide anymore. So This project I am working on would be a really exciting treatment for cancer!

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