Stroma in Cancer

Track Chair(s)

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  Priscilla Hwang, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Virginia Commonwealth University
  Richmond, Virginia, United States
• CR

  Claire Robertson, PhD

  Materials Engineer
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Livermore, California, United States

Session Chair(s)

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  Steven George, PhD;MD

  Edward Teller Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
  University of California, Davis
  Davis, California, United States
• SS

  Stephanie Seidlits

  Associate Professor
  University of Texas Austin, United States

Presentations:

• 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT

  Cell migration in the tumor microenvironment
  

  Invited Speaker: Ovijit Chaudhuri, PhD – Stanford University
• 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM PDT

  Mapping Metabolic Reprogramming of the Tumor Microenvironment through High-Resolution Optical Imaging of Metabolism and Vasculature
  

  Presenting Author: Marcia Cunha dos Santos – Duke University

  Co-Author: Enakshi Sunassee – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Riley Deutsch-Williams – Massachusetts General Hospital

  Co-Author: Megan Madonna – Duke University

  Primary Investigator: Nirmala Ramanujam, PhD – Duke University
• 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM PDT

  Breast cancer cells that undergo post-dissemination dormancy constituently activate lung fibroblasts
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah Libring, PhD – Rice University

  Co-Author: Sid Dsa – Rice University

  Co-Author: Katherine M. Young, PhD – Rice University

  Last Author: Cynthia A. Reinhart-King – Rice University

  Primary Investigator: Cynthia A. Reinhart-King – Rice University
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM PDT

  Crosstalk between adipocyte and cancer cells in obesity-associated breast cancer severity
  

  Presenting Author: Tanmoy Saha, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hoapital, Harvard Medical School

  Primary Investigator: Tanmoy Saha, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hoapital, Harvard Medical School
• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM PDT

  On-chip evaluation of angiogenesis in diverse TFE3-rearranged renal cell carcinoma microenvironments
  

  Presenting Author: Atsuya Kitada, MEng – Kyoto University

  Co-Author: Kazuya Fujimoto, Doctor of Engineering – Kyoto University

  Co-Author: Miwa Tanaka – Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

  Co-Author: Masaya Baba – Kumamoto University

  Co-Author: Takuro Nakamura – Tokyo Medical University

  Last Author: Ryuji Yokokawa – Kyoto University

  Primary Investigator: Ryuji Yokokawa – Kyoto University