Congratulations to Lisa Giulino Roth, M.D., Director of Pediatric Oncology and Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, on being awarded the 2021 Hyundai Hope Scholar Grant, funded by Hyundai Hope On Wheels, for her project, Targeting latent viral antigens in EBV+ Burkitt Lymphoma.
For this study, Dr. Roth is developing a novel approach to the treatment of lymphomas associated with Epstein Barr Virus (EBV). Using epigenetic therapies, Dr. Roth and her laboratory team will determine if they can alter the proteins expressed by EBV and make the tumor more susceptible to killing by immune cells. If successful, the work will lead to a completely new treatment approach for lymphomas associated with EBV.