Professor Kum Kum Khanna heads the Signal Transduction Laboratory at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia. She studies the role of the DNA damage response in tissue homeostasis and disease, including how to exploit its dysregulation in breast cancer to develop targeted therapeutic approaches.
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Khanna, K.K. Serendipity, luck and hard work. Nat Cell Biol 20, 1004 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-018-0170-8
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