from right to left: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr. Roland Mate Ivanyi-Nagy and Dr. Elayanambi Sundaramoorthy (CSI Singapore)

 

Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Director of the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore at the National University of Singapore, together with Assistant Professor Tobias Janowitz, Principal Investigator at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, and an international group of researchers from the USA and UK, have discovered that ketogenic diets delay tumour growth but accelerate cachexia, a wasting syndrome, an unintended side effect that could cause death. Read more on the groundbreaking research here.