The Boehm Lab

 The Boehm Lab develops cell lines from patient tumors in order to accelerate research. By sharing tissue from your cancer surgery or biopsy, you could be a driving force in cancer research.

In the lab we are overcoming major obstacles to research by developing cell lines, which are used as model systems to study diseases. This is particularly important for rare cancer research, where we are significantly limited in the ability to do research because there are not enough models of each type of rare cancer to understand each disease.

Our project, primarily focused on subtypes of sarcomas, will generate cancer cell lines that will enable a variety of studies focused on the causes of cancer, and how to treat cancer. Each cell line built for rare cancers -- like yours -- is a potentially transformative tool that can be shared by many scientists all over the world to better understand cancer.