Associate Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Victoria Findlay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention & Control Program at the National Cancer Institute designated Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University. She earned her BSc in Edinburgh, Scotland and her doctorate in Genetics at the University of Newcastle in England. Her passion is to educate and inspire the next generation of scientists. She has successfully led funded projects from both the NIH (P20, U54, R21 & R01) and the DOD (IITA) investigating the role of microRNAs and AGEs in normal and breast cancer development and cancer disparities. Her work with TRE seeks to understand the impact of AGE-RAGE toxicity in women at higher risk of breast cancer and explore the mechanistic implications of TRE induced sRAGE in dietary-AGE mouse tumor models.