In Pictures: PaceDay 2025 celebrates cancer research
"It was wonderful seeing so many coming together to celebrate the people participating in PaceDay 2025," says Jorge E. Cortes, MD.
The overall goals of the Molecular Oncology research program are to understand the fundamental cellular and molecular processes that contribute to cancer development and progression.
Normal cells have intricate molecular mechanisms that control essential phenotypes such as differentiation, cell division and movement. The molecular pathways that control these phenotypes are disrupted in cancer cells as a result of the expression of oncogenes and loss of regulatory tumor suppressor genes. These events, which are often highly specific to individual types of cancer, disrupt specific molecular pathways that result in uncontrolled cell growth and loss of normal responses to extracellular signaling cues that result in tumor development and progression.
The research interests of the program can be divided into three broad themes:
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"It was wonderful seeing so many coming together to celebrate the people participating in PaceDay 2025," says Jorge E. Cortes, MD.
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In addition to the bike ride and 5K run/walk, there will also be stationary bikes with an instructor offering several spin class sessions during the day.
PaceDay is Sunday, Oct. 5, and as a participant or volunteer, you can embrace all the perks that come with signing up while helping to cure cancer faster.