Dr. La Creis Kidd presents prostate cancer findings at new cancer center in Senegal

Associate professor and UofL’s highest potential chair in cancer research La Creis Renee Kidd was invited to visit and share her research at Senegal Dakar’s new Cancer Center, whose doors will open in December. Dr. Kidd presented her prostate cancer research to an audience that included Dr. Abdoul Aziz Kasse, director of the prospective Cancer Center in Senegal. Kidd’s research, which has spanned 14 years, focuses on the impact of genetic susceptibility markers and miRNAs in prostate cancer, disease progression and health disparities.