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Faculty
Bob Sanders
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology

Email: bgsanders@mail.utexas.edu
Website
Main Office: PAT 523
Phone: 471-7441

Alternate Office: PAT 516-520
Alt. Phone: 475-6844

Mailing Address
The University of Texas at Austin - MGM
1 University Station C0900
100 West 24th Street, PAT 325
Austin ,TX 78712
Bob Sanders

Research Summary

Research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of nutrition and cancer biology. Long term goals are to develop vitamin E analogs as anticancer agents, and to increase the understanding of the biological actions of vitamin E, both naturally occurring forms and synthetic analogs. Current investigations involve conducting chemotherapeutic studies with a vitamin E analog referred to as alpha-TEA, using syngeneic and xenograft preclinical animal models. Cell and molecular studies are focused on understanding signaling networks involved in alpha-TEA's pro-apoptotic and anti-survival mediated anti-cancer effects.