Clark Lab

The Clark Lab at UCLA

Developing New Therapies for Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases

The goal of the Clark Lab is to develop new therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. The Clark Lab does this by learning from and leveraging positron emission tomography (PET) molecular imaging studies to discover critical pathways in these diseases, by using high-throughput screening efforts to identify new ways to target these pathways, and by further studying these pathways and inhibitors in cell culture and animal models.

A graphical representation of a pathway in which CDK7 drives glucose consumption by transcribing the GLUT1 gene — Pathway through which CDK7 drives glucose consumption by transcribing the GLUT1 gene