NAME: Rita Nahta
DEPT: Breast Medical Oncology
ORGANIZATION: University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
ADDRESS: Unit 1354, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030
TELEPHONE No: 713-745-3601
FAX No: 713-745-9296
E MAIL ADDRESS: rnahta@mdanderson.org
TITLE: Instructor of Medicine
TOTAL GRANTS: currently funded grants=2; total past and current grants=6
TOTAL PUBLICATIONS: 22
MEMBERSHIPS ON EDITORIAL BOARDS: Frontiers in Bioscience

SUBJECT(S) OF RESEARCH: Growth factor receptor cross talk and experimental therapeutics
DISCIPLINE(S): Molecular Oncology
ORGAN SYSTEMS: Breast
TISSUES: Mammary
CELL(S): Breast epithelial cancer cell lines
MOLECULE(S): HER2, IGF-IR, leptin
TECHNIQUE(S): molecular biology, cell culture