{"id":3128,"date":"2014-03-05T18:26:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T23:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/new-insights-into-medulloblastoma-from-deshmukh-lab\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:27:08","slug":"new-insights-into-medulloblastoma-from-deshmukh-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/new-insights-into-medulloblastoma-from-deshmukh-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"New Insights into Medulloblastoma from Deshmukh Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"180\" class=\"image-inline size-full wp-image-2666\" title=\"Knight\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/Knight.jpg\" alt=\"Knight\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beth Knight, a graduate student in Mohanish Deshmukh\u2019s lab, has found a novel gene that could be targeted for medulloblastoma. Beth\u2019s research identified the ASC gene to be essential for medulloblastoma in mouse models. This finding was unexpected because ASC is typically associated with the detection of pathogens. However, Beth found that ASC is highly expressed in medulloblastoma and that deletion of ASC had a marked effect of inhibiting brain tumor growth. This research, which was published in Oncogene, was done in collaboration with the labs of Jenny Ting, Tim Gershon, and Ryan Miller in the Neuroscience Center and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Beth\u2019s discovery, click <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/news\/2014\/march\/inside-the-inflammasome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Knight, a graduate student in Mohanish Deshmukh\u2019s lab, has found a novel gene that could be targeted for medulloblastoma. Beth\u2019s research identified the ASC gene to be essential for medulloblastoma in mouse models. This finding was unexpected because ASC is typically associated with the detection of pathogens. However, Beth found that ASC is highly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/new-insights-into-medulloblastoma-from-deshmukh-lab\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Insights into Medulloblastoma from Deshmukh Lab\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4816,"featured_media":2666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Insights into Medulloblastoma from Deshmukh Lab | UNC Neuroscience Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/new-insights-into-medulloblastoma-from-deshmukh-lab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Insights into Medulloblastoma from Deshmukh Lab | UNC Neuroscience Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Beth Knight, a graduate student in Mohanish Deshmukh\u2019s lab, has found a novel gene that could be targeted for medulloblastoma. 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