Dirk Dittmer, PhD (IMAGE)

University of North Carolina Health Care

Dirk Dittmer, PhD

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Dirk Dittmer, PhD, and colleagues have developed a model of Kaposi sarcoma could be key to the development of new drugs to treat the disease. Kaposi sarcoma is the most common cancer in people living with HIV. “Before this, only repurposed drugs from other cancers were used to treat Kaposi sarcoma, but now we can start investigating entirely new compounds to help treat what can be a lethal cancer.”

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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

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