Punit Kaur

Biography

Punit Kaur is working as an assistant professor in the department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Immunology at Morehouse School of Medicine. She completed her degree of Doctor from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Research Interest

The goal of our lab is to research and develop heat shock protein-based therapies to be used alone or in combination with current therapies for the eradication of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Recent studies on surface receptors and gene expression of breast tumors have come up with a term TNBC, creating a phenotype and disease quite distinct from that seen in HER2- or ER-positive breast cancers, which is a much more aggressive disease without tumor-specific treatment options. Cancer stem cells (CSC) are cancer cells with characteristics associated with normal stem cells; more specifically they possess the ability to give rise to all cell types found in a particular cancer sample. It is thought that conventional chemotherapies kill differentiated or differentiating cells, which form the bulk of the tumor but are unable to kill new cells