Adrienne Scheck
Associate Professor
Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
United States of America
Biography
Adrienne Scheck, PhD, is an associate professor of neurobiology at Barrow Neurological Institute. Dr. Scheck’s expertise includes neuro-oncology. She is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, Society for Neuro-Oncology, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Women in Cancer Research, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Scheck received her doctorate in biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Research Interest
Metabolic Dysregulation in Tumors, Biomarkers for Brain Tumors,Intraoperative and Noninvasive Imaging
Publications
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1. Lussier DM, Woolf EC, Johnson JL, Brooks KS, Blattman JN, Scheck AC. Enhanced immunity in a mouse model of malignant glioma is mediated by a therapeutic ketogenic diet. BMC cancer. 2016 May 13;16(1):310.
2. Woolf EC, Scheck AC. The ketogenic diet for the treatment of malignant glioma. Journal of lipid research. 2015;56(1):5-10.
3. Woolf EC, Curley KL, Liu Q, Turner GH, Charlton JA, Preul MC, Scheck AC. The ketogenic diet alters the hypoxic response and affects expression of proteins associated with angiogenesis, invasive potential and vascular permeability in a mouse glioma model. PLoS One. 2015 Jun 17;10(6):e0130357.
