Dr Farjana Rowther, Brain Tumour UK Post Doctoral Researcher in Neuro-Oncology

Mumbai-born Farjana Rowther joined Brain Tumour UK’s team of researchers in May 2010 and is determined to make a difference to the lives of patients.

“As a scientist, I spend most of my working time in the laboratory and interact mainly with other scientists and clinicians. Brain Tumour UK’s conference was an opportunity for me to meet patients and understand what they really go through. At the end of the day, they are the ones I am working for – to make a difference to their lives.”

The focus of Farjana’s work is to screen for genes responsible for the resistance to chemotherapy in patients with glioblastoma brain tumours. Her mission is to try to make brain tumours more susceptible to chemotherapy by knocking down or silencing the abnormal genes responsible for this resistance.

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