9th Annual WML Academic Symposium

Time: 10:00
Room: 312
Presenter(s): Cameron Davis, Lauren Smith
Title: Nuclear Autoantigenic Sperm Protein (NASP): A Possible Diagnostic Marker for Cancer
Developed under the guidance of Dr. Oleg Alekseev , Osteopathic Medicine

"This project offers an exploration of a new line of diagnostic for various cancers. It is based on the aberrant expression of highly auto antigenic tNASP protein in selected cancer cells. We examined the level of anti-tNASP antibodies in the sera of patients diagnosed with most common cancers: lung, breast, colon/rectum, ovary, endometrium, prostate, brain, thyroid, kidney, bladder cancers, and melanoma. Our results demonstrated different levels of anti-tNASP antibodies in patients diagnosed with different malignancies. We hypothesize that tNASP detection might be used as a powerful tool in cancer screening, diagnosis, differentiation, and treatments."