Dr. Blain is an internationally known expert in cell cycle and cancer biology, and is one of the world’s experts on p27Kip1. She has been studying cell cycle regulation for more than 25 years as an NIH funded investigator and tenured Associate Professor at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center. She founded Concarlo Therapeutics, capitalizing on discoveries she made and patented. She was trained at Princeton, Columbia and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
While the past several decades have seen progress in early detection, recent innovations in metastatic breast cancer—or cancer that has spread to distant parts of the body, including the bone, brain, or lungs—continues to cause excitement.