UI cancer researcher Kristina Wyatt Thiel is the 2007-2008 recipient of the two-year, $100,000 postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the National Ladies Auxilliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Thiel is a postdoctoral research fellow in cardiology.

Thiel’s research project focuses on preventing certain kinds of breast cancer cells from becoming immune to therapies like Herceptin, a drug that has helped to significantly increase a patient’s chance to fight off the disease.

She has identified an agent that, once inside the tumor, will block the cancer cell from survival mode, and her research will be looking for safe ways to get that agent into the cell. Thiel also hopes that her research results will help develop therapies for other human diseases.

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