Emily Steffensen Medical Student /images/Pathology/emily-steffensen.jpg <p><span>Emily is a KINBRE scholarship recipient (April 2014 - May 2015) enrolled in pre-medicine biology and physics, currently on a research rotation. Emily's project involves testing the effectiveness of carnosic acid (CA) as a potential treatment for preventing non-invasive forms of breast cancer from becoming invasive. She is performing various experiments to assess effects of CA on cell proliferation as well as migration and invasion. Further studies analyzing CA's effect on transcriptional signaling via the Wnt pathway will also be executed; then she will be able to test CA in an&nbsp;</span><em>in vivo</em><span>&nbsp;mouse intraductal model that mimics the process of non-invasive ductal carcinoma</span><em><span>&nbsp;</span>in situ</em><span>&nbsp;(DCIS) progression to invasive ductal carcinoma (DC).</span></p>