# Stuart Schreiber's Latest Discovery in his Fight Against Treatment-Resistant Cancers July 25, 2017 - [ News ](/news-categories/news) [Stuart Schreiber](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/people/stuart-l-schreiber) has been searching for vulnerabilities in treatment-resistant cancer cells. Recently, he found one. The Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator published a new ground-breaking study, "Dependency of a therapy-resistant state of cancer cells on a lipid peroxidase pathway," in the July 2017 edition of *[Nature](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature23007.html)*. The discovery "opens a potential new route to fight cancer in people who currently lack good treatment options because conventional ones don't work," according to a follow-up feature article in *Chemical & Engineering News.* ### [Read the Study published in Nature](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/files/chemistry/files/dependency_of_a_therapy-resistant_state_of_cancer_cells_on_a_lipid_peroxidase_pathway.pdf) ### [Read the Feature Article in Chemical & Engineering News](http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i29/Treatment-resistant-cancers-Achillesheel.html) Arjun Raj, a researcher with the University of Pennsylvania, stressed the importance of Schreiber's research: "One of the most exciting findings is that treatment-resistant cancer cells have some convergent general principles that can be exploited therapeutically, instead of the case-by-case, whack-a-mole approach that is currently dominant \[in fighting treatment-resistant cancer\]. Identifying the GPX4 pathway raises many exciting therapeutic possibilities.” ### Want to learn more about Stuart Schreiber? Visit his [Lab Website](https://www.broadinstitute.org/schreiber-lab) to learn more about his research to understand and treat infectious disease, neurodegenerative disease and cancer. See also:- [ Schreiber ](/news-and-events-faculty/schreiber) - [ Faculty ](/news-event-type/faculty) - [ Research ](/news-event-type/research) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)