Wistar ’s Zachary Schug and lab are studying the relationship between alcohol intake and some site-specific cancers

What do cancer cells need to thrive and grow? The Wistar Institute ’s Dr. Zachary Schug — assistant professor in the Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program at Wistar’s Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center — studies how cancer cells’ metabolism works and what cancer cells use for fuel. His lab is on a quest to understand how cancer cells process a nut rient called acetate. We sat down with Schug to talk about his work in the field of cancer metabolism and its relationship with our daily…
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