Jennifer K. Richer, PhD

Assistant Professor

 

Education:

  • B.S. and MS, University of Texas, El Paso Texas

  • PhD, Colorado State University, Cell and Molecular Biology (1992)

Postdoctoral Education:

  • University of Colorado Denver with Dr. Kathryn Horwitz

  Subspecialty:

  • Breast, endometrial and ovarian cancer

    Co-director of the Cancer Center Pathology Core

  • Member of the Graduate Programs: Cancer Biology, Reproductive Sciences, and Biomedical Sciences

Jennifer K. Richer, PhD
 Jennifer K. Richer, PhD

 

Research Activities:

  • The focus of the research in my laboratory is on the role steroid hormone receptors in breast and gynecological cancers

  • We study the mechanisms of resistance to hormone therapy and how these cancers progress to hormone independence.

  • Recently we have determined that microRNAs are differentially expressed in well- differentiated, hormone dependent cancers versus less-differentiated, more aggressive and hormone independent tumors that have undergone epithelial to mesenchymal transition. We are studying miRNA control of the transcription factor ZEB1 and microRNAs that control epithelial cell identity (polarity and differentiation state) and expression of the estrogen receptor in breast, endometrial and ovarian cancers

PUBLICATIONS:   Journal Articles in Pub Med (www.pubmed.gov)

 

Office Location:

Research Complex 1 (RC-1) North, Room P18-5122 

Contact Information:

Email:        jennifer.richer@ucdenver.edu

Telephone: 303-724-735

CellPhone:  303-877-1136

Fax:          303-724-3712

Mailing Address:

University of Colorado Denver

Mail Stop 8104

PO Box 6511

Aurora, CO 80045