Utthara Nayar
Cancer researcher
Utthara Nayar is a cancer researcher based in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work focuses specifically on breast cancer.
Biography
Nayar lived in the country of Oman during her childhood. She was encouraged to participate in science, with her passion being in biology and physics.
For her undergraduate degree Nayar attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a part of their biology Honors Program with a major in biology. She earned her doctorate through Weill Cornell Medical College. She is employed at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as a researcher in the lab of Nikhil Wagle. She is also a member of a team at Harvard Medical School as a research affiliate.
Research
At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Nayar and her team have been investigating metastatic breast cancer and how hormones affect patient treatment. For some forms of breast cancer a patient is ER positive, or estrogen receptor positive, meaning that tumors grow as the levels of estrogen in the body increase.
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