Written By Torie Robinson

Cancer Drugs Used For Epilepsy?! - Madeleine Oudin, Oudin Lab, Tufts University, US

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Hear of the similarities between neuronal cells in epilepsy and metastatic breast cancer, plus the potential repurposing of drugs. From lead PI, scientist Madeleine Oudin, inspired by daughter Margo (who has the rare genetic epilepsy SCN8A).

    • Intro

    • Identifying the similarities between cancer & neuronal cells

    • Same ion channels anomalies in both epilepsies and cancer subtype

    • Epilepsy drugs to treat breast cancer?!

    • Cancer drugs to treat seizures?!

    • “New” epilepsy medications available through drug repurposing?

    • New grant studying the neuronal identity of tumours

    • Tools used in both epilepsy and cancer research

    • New SCN8A epilepsy research

    • Epilepsy research results to be used in cancer treatment?!

    • Current research & treatment development stage

    • Don’t be afraid of neuroscience and drug development!

    • Learn more

  • Madeleine grew up in Paris, France in a multicultural environment, and completed a BSc in Biochemistry at McGill University, a MSc in Pharmacology, and a PhD in Neuroscience from King’s College London, UK. She completed her post-doctoral work in Prof. Frank Gertler’s lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, trying to understand how metastasis, the dissemination of tumour cells throughout the body, occurs and how it affects response to chemotherapy.

    She started at Tufts University as an Assistant Professor in January 2018.

    She has received numerous awards for her research such as the DP2 New Innovator Award in 2021 and the 2020 CMBE Rising Star Award and was voted Exemplary Engineer by the graduate students in her department 3 years in a row.

    She is committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in biomedical engineering, and is the founding member of the BME DEI committee, a member of the Tufts School of Engineering DEIJT Committee, a member of the BMES UNITE faculty group, and co-organizer of the UNITE seminar series.

    When she is not working hard in the lab, she enjoys traveling around the world, discovering new places, and doing high-risk, high-adrenaline sports like flying trapeze and rock climbing.

  • Lab: Oudin Lab

    Twitter: MadeleineOudin

    LinkedIn: Madeleine Oudin

    Tufts University: Madeleine Oudin

    ResearchGate: Madeleine-Oudin

 
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