Engineered Cancer Models for In Vitro Studies

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Cynthia Hajal, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Northeastern University
• 

  Susan Leggett, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Urbana, Illinois, United States

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:

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EST

  Understanding metabolic dysregulation roles in breast tumor innervation using tissue-engineering approaches
  

  Invited Speaker: Younghye Song, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EST

  Novel Vascularized Liver Tumor Model For Evaluation Of Vessel Regression And Cell Death Response To Embolic Agents
  

  Presenting Author: Huu Tuan Nguyen, PhD – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Zuzana Tirpakova – Terasaki Institute

  Primary Investigator: Natan Barros (he/him/his) – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Surjendu Maity – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Natashya Falcone, PhD – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Ahmad Elsebahy – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Menekse Ermis Sen – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Danial Khorsandi, PhD (he/him/his) – Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovations

  Co-Author: Kalpana Mandal – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Arne Peirsman – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Rondinelli Herculano – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Alireza Hassani Najafabadi, PhD – Terasaki Institute

  Co-Author: Mehmet Remzi Dokmeci, PhD (he/him/his) – Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation

  Primary Investigator: Vadim Jucaud, PhD (he/him/his) – Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation

  Primary Investigator: Ali Khademhosseini, PhD – Terasaki Institute
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EST

  Polyacrylamide Beads as Adipocyte Mimetics; Modeling the Physical Characteristics of Breast Cancer Stroma
  

  Presenting Author: Brianna Knode (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

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

  Co-Author: Brittany Schutrum (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Dong Wang, PhD (he/him/his) – Yale University

  Co-Author: Alice Battistella – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

  Co-Author: Ruchi Goswami – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

  Co-Author: Salvatore Girardo – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

  Co-Author: Jochen Guck – Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

  Co-Author: Corey O'Hern, PhD – Yale University

  Primary Investigator: Claudia Fischbach, PhD – Cornell University
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EST

  The Perivascular Niche Enforces Glioblastoma Stem Cell Dormancy in an In Vitro 3D Glioblastoma-Vascular Model
  

  Presenting Author: Nathaniel Silvia (he/him/his) – Northeastern University

  Primary Investigator: Guohao Dai, PhD – Northeastern University
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST

  3D Brain Vasculature Microenvironment Model Captures Invasive Behavior and Gene Signatures of Glioblastoma
  

  Presenting Author: Vivian K. Lee, PhD – Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Roland H. Friedel – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  Co-Author: Hongyan Zou – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  Primary Investigator: Guohao Dai, PhD – Northeastern University
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM EST

  Colorectal Adenocarcinoma Organoids Enable Morphologic-Based Tumor Evaluation
  

  Presenting Author: Yuwen Zhao, MS (he/him/his) – Lehigh University

  Primary Investigator: Yaling Liu, PhD – Lehigh University

  Co-Author: Ratul Paul – Washington University in st. Louis

  Co-Author: Qiying Li – Lehigh University

  Co-Author: Xiaochen Qin – Lehigh University

  Co-Author: Anthony Wu (he/him/his) – Lehigh University