Her interests include inflammation, cancer and drug development. Her laboratory studies the role of inflammation in cancer, as well as develops and tests new drugs for the prevention or treatment of cancer and other chronic diseases. Lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, and a subset of breast cancer (estrogen receptor negative or ER-) are three of the leading causes of cancer death, and the lab therefore uses the most relevant mouse models available of these diseases to study the development of these cancers and to test new drugs.