Toriola honored by oncology group - Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Recognized for excellence successful bosom crab research

Adetunji T. Toriola, MD, PhD, a William H. Danforth Washington University Physician-Scientist Scholar, has received the 2022 Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research. The grant is supported by the Breast Cancer Foundation and honors physicians and scientists whose probe has had oregon whitethorn person a far-reaching interaction connected the etiology, detection, diagnosis, treatment, oregon prevention of bosom cancer.

A prof of country successful the Public Health Sciences Division astatine Washington University School of Medicine successful St. Louis, Toriola leads respective studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is main researcher connected an NIH assistance aimed astatine knowing the molecular ground of bosom density and the mechanisms by which dense breasts summation the hazard of bosom cancer. He is besides main researcher of an NIH-funded MERIT Award, which supports a signifier 2 objective proceedings evaluating whether targeting a signaling pathway tin trim biomarkers known to summation bosom crab risk. His probe aims to unfastened up further approaches to bosom crab prevention successful premenopausal women.

Toriola volition person his grant Dec. 9 during the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium successful Texas.