Dr. Diana Azzam and her team’s cancer research were featured on MinuteEarth, shining a light on how they use functional precision medicine to guide personalized cancer therapies for some of the deadliest cancers.
MinuteEarth is a popular YouTube channel—with more than 3 million subscribers—that produces a series of short, illustrated stories about science and the planet.
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Azzam, who is also an assistant professor of environmental health sciences, runs the Center for Advancing Personalized Cancer Treatments at FIU. Her lab tackles advanced cancers through the use of functional precision medicine in cancer treatment as well as a multifaceted study of cancer stem cells, the cells responsible for cancer relapse and metastasis.