Description of Collaborative Activity: |
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Center for Toxicological Research, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Division of Cancer Prevention, Nutritional Sciences Research Group are collaborating on an Interagency Agreement in which NCI will provide funds to examine the role of epigenetic mechanisms as factors that determine susceptibility to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma and to examine epigenetic alterations which may be used as markers of susceptibility to disease development, and whether correction of those epigenetic abnormalities during hepatocarcinogenesis may be a crucial decisive factor in cancer prevention strategies. |
