Acs Research - Theorylab

Melissa Bates, PhD, describes the “fascinating twist of going from observation to molecular and cellular manipulation in the lab to a clinical setting” as she and her team uncover exciting links between sleep apnea and multiple myeloma. Dr. Bates is Assistant Professor of Health and Human Physiology and Pediatric Neonatology and Director of the Leukemia Molecular Epidemiological Resource at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa. 2:51 – How she and her research team are dealing with the pandemic 4:32 – On sleep-disordered breathing and sleep apnea… 6:46 – …and how it relates to cancer risk and mortality 13:17 – On how she began researching multiple myeloma and why it’s so difficult to treat 17:30 – The link between obesity and both multiple myeloma and sleep-disordered breathing 20:09 – How experiments by Dr. Bates and her lab yielded exciting links between sleep apnea and multiple myeloma 23:11 – How 90% of patients with multiple myeloma had sleep apnea 25:12 – The potenti