ROANOKE, Virginia, Jan. 30 (TNSres) -- The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * A Jeanine L. Matte Fellowship will help advance Samantha Howerton's research into personalized therapies for glioblastoma. * * * By Leigh Anne Kelley As an undergraduate studying molecular biology at Concord University in West Virginia, Samantha Howerton researched circadian proteins and tumor invasion mechanisms in choriocarcinoma, a rare but fast-growing cance more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Jan. 29 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Graduate student's research goal: Improve outcomes for brain cancer patients As an undergraduate studying molecular biology at Concord University in West Virginia, Samantha Howerton researched circadian proteins and tumor invasion mechanisms in choriocarcinoma, a rare but fast-growing cancer that can form in the placenta during pregnancy.  Now a doctoral student in Virginia Tech's Translational Biology, Medicine more PR