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Wallace's team studies viruses that cause cancer, namely human papillomaviruses or HPVs, which can be very deadly. According to Wallace, these viruses are not alive like the cells in our body. HPVs lack the ability to make the proteins required for their own life cycle. Instead, they convert infected cells into factories producing viral progeny. This transformation includes the uncontrolled and rapid growth associated with cancer. Typically, HPV infections are quickly cleared by our immune system, but if the virus escapes the immune system, a tumor will form. Wallace's team hopes to reduce the suffering caused by these viruses by learning how HPV proteins manipulate cells and using that knowledge to determine which cancers are caused by HPV infections and predict effective treatments for HPV-caused tumors.