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Professor Ian Mills

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Ian G Mills

Professor Ian Mills

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Prostate cancer is a high-incidence male cancer which progresses to lethal metastatic disease in around 20-30% of diagnosed cases.

Our research focus is on identifying biological drivers of disease progression. In so doing we have used genetic, genomic and transcriptomic approaches to show that prostate cancer cells undergo metabolic dysregulation in the early stages of the disease with concomitant stress resistance linked to the unfolded protein response and nucleolar biogenesis.

Our entry-points have been the study of transcription factors, the androgen receptor and c-Myc in particular. We are now endeavouring to generate pre-clincial models which better define the reprogramming factors that best reflect the transition for localized to metastatic disease.

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  • +44 (0)28 9097 2779

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  • Metabolic dysregulation/stress response signaling.

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  • Polygenic hazard score to guide screening for aggressive prostate cancer: development and validation in large scale cohorts
  • The Telegraph: Obesity drug could help fight prostate cancer

 

 

 

 


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