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

10/02/2014 Mara Gilardi starts her PhD!!!
We are happy to announce that Mara Gilardi will soon start her PhD in Life Science (University of Milan-Bicocca) as part of our research group!
19/02/2014 Congratulations to Silvia Lopa for her PhD graduation!!!
09/10/2013 Meet us at CORS 2013 in Venice (13-16 Oct)!
05/10/2013 Dr. Alessandro Pozzi wins the Italian Hand Surgery Society 1st Prize
We are pleased to announce that CTE-Lab collaborator Alessandro Pozzi, MD, has been awarded with the Italian Hand Surgery Society 1st Prize for the work “The trapezium in subjects affected by rizoarth
18/09/2013 Meet us at BMES 2013 in Seattle (25-28 Sep)!

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