The Würzburg cancer researcher Martin Eilers. (Image: Robert Emmerich / Universität Würzburg)
The Würzburg cancer researcher Martin Eilers. (Image: Robert Emmerich / Universität Würzburg) For the second time, Würzburg cancer researcher Professor Martin Eilers has received one of the prestigious ERC Advanced Grants. The award is endowed with 2.5 million euros. The scientific community agrees on this point: Excessive expression of one of the three genes from the MYC family sustains the growth of most human tumors. No wonder MYC proteins are the focus of cancer research worldwide: To date, more than 45,000 papers have been published on the subject. However, the resounding success of this concentrated research effort has so far failed to materialize. "Despite this enormous effort, and in contrast to virtually all other cancer-causing genes, the central questions of how MYC proteins exert their oncogenic function and why tumors depend on elevated MYC levels have remained unanswered to this day," says Professor Martin Eilers.
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