Associate Scientist
Sanford Research/USD
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Pilar de la Puente, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Sanford Research / University of South Dakota School of Medicine. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences at the University of Salamanca in Spain. Dr. de la Puente completed postdoctoral training at Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine in cancer tissue engineering, nanomedicine and translational precision-based drug screenings. The de la Puente lab develops biomimetic tissue engineered models of the tumor microenvironment to more accurately mimic cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions and provide a better understanding of cancer progression, drug resistance and cancer immunology.
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Thursday, October 9, 2025
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM PDT
S11 - Engineering an omentum-on-a-chip for studying adiposopathy in ovarian cancer metastasis
Friday, October 10, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Saturday, October 11, 2025
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