Advanced in vitro cancer models

Cancer metastases represent the greatest challenge of modern medicine due to their high impact on patient mortality. Our lab studies the metastatic process through 2D and 3D human in vitro models across multiple scales. We successfully  design  and  develop human  vascularized  macro and microfluidic systems that mimic in vivo biophysical and biochemical organ specific microenvironment with the aim to study different steps of metastasis. Particularly, we are able to analyze the crosstalk between breast cancer and endothelial cells in organ specific microenvironments through the establishment of endothelial monolayers or perfusable microvascular networks. We study the gene silencing effect in each step of extravasation, which can be dissected in adhesion, trans-endothelial migration and early invasion of secondary organs leading to metastatic colonization.


NEWS / EVENTS

24/09/2014 Roberta Visone awarded for Best Master Thesis
We are proud to announce that CTE-Lab Master student Roberta Visone has been awarded with the Prize GNB Bressanone 2014 for the Best Master Thesis entitled “Development of a culture chamber for electr
18/12/2014 Congratulations to Simone Bersini for his PhD graduation!!!
01/11/2014 Simone Bersini will spend six months at the Khademhosseini Lab (MIT)
We are pleased to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Simone Bersini will spend six months at the Khademhosseini Lab (MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, US).
25/10/2014 Marta Bottagisio starts her PhD!!!
We are happy to announce that Marta Bottagisio will soon start her PhD in Veterinary and Animal Science (University of Milan) as part of our research group!
04/10/2014 Mara Gilardi will spend six months at the Mechanobiology Lab (MIT)
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Mara Gilardi will spend six months at the Mechanobiology Lab headed by Prof. Roger D.

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