Tumor Environment & Metastasis Members
The Tumor Environment & Metastasis (TEAM) Program uses an integrative approach to elucidate key molecular interactions between tumor cells and components of the host stromal microenvironment including matrix, vascular structures and cells of the immune system.
Gottardi, Cara
Associate Professor
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Expertise in how cells adhere to each other, what constitutes dynamic versus static adhesion at the molecular level, and how the state of cell-cell adhesion is interpreted by the nucleus to control ge... [more]
Green, Kathleen
Professor
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Our work has established that in addition to playing a critical role in cell-cell adhesion, desmosomal cadherins serve as signaling scaffolds that dictate cell behavior and control the balance of prol... [more]
Heimberger, Amy
Professor
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I am a physician-scientist and a board-certified Neurosurgeon with extensive training and experience in the field of immunology. My laboratory is focused on elucidating the mechanisms of tumor-mediate... [more]
Horvath, Curt
Professor
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My laboratory focuses on the molecular events controlling inducible gene regulation, with focus on the production of and response to cytokines and especially interferon and IFN-JAKSTAT signal transdu... [more]
Jin, Jing
Associate Professor
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Our research focuses on the synthetic design of recombinant fusion proteins for biotherapeutic, diagnostic, and disease modeling purposes. One of the general themes of our designs is to achieve target... [more]
Kume, Tsutomu
Professor
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For over a decade my research laboratory has focused on vascular formation and angiogenesis. A particular emphasis in my laboratory has recently been analysis of neovascularization in physiological an... [more]
LaBonne, Carole
Professor
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For the past 16 years, work in my laboratory has centered on understanding the normal development of the neural crest, a stem cell population central to the evolution of the vertebrates, and at unders... [more]
Lavine, Jeremy
Assistant Professor
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My research interest is to understand the link between angiogenesis and inflammation in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). Although nAMD is not an oncologic disease, the study of inf... [more]
Le Poole, Isabelle
Professor
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Research in the Le Poole lab is focused on immunotherapy the etiology and treatment of vitiligo, melanoma and lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) as well as tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Specifically, ... [more]
Liu, Huiping
Associate Professor
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The Liu lab studies the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer stem cells (CSCs) and metastasis through four ongoing interactive basic and translational research projects: (1) to understand CSCs in me... [more]