Tumor Microenvironment I

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Grace Bushnell, PhD (she/her/hers)

  K99 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  University of Michigan
  Plymouth, Michigan, United States
• LR

  LaDeirda Monet Roberts

Track Chair(s)

• EP

  Erica Pratt, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  Boston University
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• MO

  Madeleine Oudin

  Tufts University

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EST

  Engineering mammary tissue models to study drivers of cancer recurrence
  

  Invited Speaker: Marjan Rafat, PhD – Vanderbilt University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EST

  Engineered matrices reveal stiffness-mediated chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer organoids
  

  Presenting Author: Daiyao Zhang, MS, BS (she/her/hers) – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Bauer LeSavage – ImmuneBridge

  Co-Author: Aidan Gilchrist, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California Davis

  Co-Author: Carla Huerta-López – Stanford University

  Last Author: Sarah Heilshorn, PhD – Stanford University
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EST

  Hypertrophic adipocytes shift from lipase- to vesicle-mediated lipid transfer to promote obesity-associated breast cancer progression
  

  Presenting Author: Garrett F. Beeghly, MS (he/him/his) – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Marlee Pincus – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Angela Cho – Weill Cornell Medicine

  Co-Author: Domenick Falcone – Weill Cornell Medicine

  Co-Author: Rohan Varshney – University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Michael Rudolph – University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Neil Iyengar – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  Last Author: Claudia Fischbach, PhD – Cornell University
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EST

  Investigating the Effects of TAM Receptor Inhibition on Tumor-Immune Cell Crosstalk
  

  Primary Investigator: Douglas Lauffenburger, PhD – MIT

  Presenting Author: Anisha Datta (she/her/hers) – MIT
• 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM EST

  Matrix metalloproteinase 9: an emerging biomarker for classification of adherent vestibular schwannoma
  

  Presenting Author: Han TN Nguyen, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Co-Author: Bailey Duhon – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Co-Author: Hsuan-Chih Kuo – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Co-Author: Melanie Fisher, BS (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Co-Author: Olivia Brickey – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Co-Author: Lisa Zhang – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Co-Author: Jose Otero – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Co-Author: Daniel Prevedello – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Co-Author: Oliver Adunka – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Primary Investigator: Yin Ren – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
• 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM EST

  Patient-derived Organotypic Model of Colorectal Cancer Cells for Tumor-Stromal Interactions
  

  Presenting Author: Astha Lamichhane (she/her/hers) – The University of Akron

  Primary Investigator: Hossein Tavana, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Akron

  Co-Author: Prasiddha Guragain, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Akron