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

20/06/2013 Nathalie Mayer wins the Best Young Investigator presentation award at TERMIS-EU 2013
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab visiting PhD student Nathalie Mayer is the winner of the TERMIS-EU 1st Prize for the Best Young Investigator presentation for the work ”Reconstruction of human ar
06/06/2013 Meet us at TERMIS-EU 2013 in Istanbul (17-20 Jun)!
15/03/2013 Silvia Lopa will spend six months at the Cell and Tissue Repair Group (Erasmus MC)
We are pleased to announce that CTE-Lab PhD Student Silvia Lopa will spend six months at the Cell and Tissue Repair Group headed by Prof. Gerjo van Osch (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL).
13/01/2013 Dr. Matteo Moretti elected as member of the TERMIS European Council
09/10/2012 Welcome to Raymond J. Kemp (University of Twente)!
We are happy to announce that Raymond J. Kemp from University of Twente (NL) will join our group for 3 months as visiting Master student.

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