Tumor Microenvironment II

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Ioannis Zervantonakis, PhD (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  University of Pittsburgh, Bioengineering, Pennsylvania, United States
• WM

  Walter Murfee

  Professor
  University of Florida
  Gaivesville, Florida, 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:

• 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM EST

  Interstitial transport to identify invading tumor cells and their environment in glioblastoma
  

  Invited Speaker: Jennifer Munson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Jessica Cunningham – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Cora Carman - Esparza (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Katie Degen – Fralin Biomedical Resarch Institute

  Co-Author: Caleb Stine – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Naciye Atay – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Sharon Michelhaugh – Virginia Tech
• 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM EST

  Normalizing Lymphatic Drainage Potentiates Immunotherapy in Breast Cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Yansong Peng, MS (he/him/his) – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Renhao Lu, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University

  Last Author: Esak Lee, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University
• 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM EST

  Ferroptosis is regulated by matrix stiffness
  

  Presenting Author: Emma Villares – Duke University

  Co-Author: Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi – Duke University

  Co-Author: Chao-Chieh Lin, PhD – Duke University

  Primary Investigator: Sharon Gerecht, PhD – Duke University
• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM EST

  Microfluidic Modulation of Tumor Microvasculature in Micro-dissected Cancer Tissues
  

  Presenting Author: Tran Ngoc Huyen Nguyen, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Lisa Horowitz, MD PhD – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Brandon nguyen – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Timothy Krilov (he/him/his) – University of Washington

  Co-Author: SongLi Zhu – Fred Hutch Cancer Center

  Co-Author: Ethan Lockhart – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Taranjit Gujral – Fred Hutch Cancer Center

  Primary Investigator: Albert Folch – University of Washington
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EST

  Motility signatures of native T cells within lung tumor microenvironment using the murine crystal ribcage
  

  Presenting Author: Kathryn Regan, MS (she/her/hers) – Boston University

  Co-Author: Gabrielle Grifno (she/her/hers) – Boston University Biomedical Engineering

  Co-Author: Rohin Banerji, M.Sc. – Boston University

  Co-Author: Linzheng Shi, BE – Boston University

  Co-Author: Winita Wangsrikhun – Boston University

  Co-Author: Lea Berland – Dana Farber Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Mohammad Rashidian, PhD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia

  Primary Investigator: Hadi T. Nia, PhD – Boston University
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EST

  Multicompartmentalized microvascularized tumor-on-a-chip to study tumor-stroma interactions and drug resistance in ovarian cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Simona Plesselova, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research

  Co-Author: Kristin Calar – Sanford Research

  Co-Author: Hailey Axemaker (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research

  Primary Investigator: Pilar de la Puente, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research / University of South Dakota School of Medicine