Maria Carmen Banqueri Pegalajar, a passionate researcher within the subject of most cancers biology on the College of Málaga has acquired the Soroptimist Worldwide of Europe Scholarship 2024-25.
Lately, she accomplished her grasp’s thesis centered on exploring new therapeutic choices for some of the aggressive types of most cancers: triple-negative breast most cancers. This subtype of breast cancer is notoriously troublesome to deal with because of its resistance to standard therapies, together with chemotherapy.
Maria Carmen’s work goals to determine and characterise pure compounds that might doubtlessly modulate key most cancers processes and develop into the inspiration for future remedy choices in medical trials.
Pushed by her profound curiosity in most cancers biology and the necessity for progressive therapies, Maria Carmen selected to focus her analysis on discovering pure compounds able to concentrating on the processes that make triple-negative breast most cancers so aggressive. “In contrast to different subtypes, triple-negative breast most cancers has a peculiarity that makes standard therapies much less efficient,” she explains. “This not solely ends in a extra unsure prognosis for sufferers, but in addition will increase the urgency to seek out higher therapeutic methods.”
It was throughout her analysis journey that Maria Carmen was launched to the scholarship of Soroptimist International of Europe.
The scholarship of €6,000 gives Maria Carmen with important monetary help, permitting her to pay attention absolutely on her analysis with out the distractions of monetary worries.
Maria Carmen’s ambitions stay firmly grounded in most cancers analysis. “My aim is to contribute to the invention of recent compounds that might decelerate the illness and in the end enhance affected person outcomes,” she says. With a transparent concentrate on biomedical analysis, Maria Carmen aspires to construct a profession devoted to bettering the lives of these affected by most cancers.
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