Contact

Michelle Liratni
Administrative Assistant
Purdue Center for Cancer Research
201 S. University Street, Hansen Life Sciences Building
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2064
Phone: (765) 494-9129
Fax: (765) 494-9193
mliratni@purdue.edu
www.cancerresearch.purdue.edu

Ethan Kingery
Conference Coordinator
Purdue Conferences
Phone: 1-888-515-0023
confreg@purdue.edu

Sponsors

IBCN Project

The international breast cancer and nutrition (IBCN) project is focused on breast cancer prevention research to inform health communication, interventions, and public policy. This project benefits from a global perspective through the establishment of culturally aware multidisciplinary and international collaborations.

The development of breast cancer prevention strategies will be facilitated by a better knowledge of the epigenetic regulation of DNA (i.e, a series of mechanisms resulting in the reorganization of chromatin, in particular, via posttranslational histone modifications and DNA methylation, and that control the expression and silencing of genes). One way to identify epigenetic factors that influence breast cancer development in response to the environment is to focus on nutrition since dietary patterns have been associated with breast cancer and nutrients are known to impact gene expression (nutrigenomics). Once the diet-epigenetic interactions that protect or weaken the breast epithelium have been identified, it will be possible to develop breast cancer prevention strategies.