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

01/10/2012 Meet us at BF 2012 in Manchester (28-31 Oct)!
03/09/2012 Silvia Lopa selected for the Tissue Engineering Young Investigator Council
We are proud to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Silvia Lopa has been selected as one of the six members worldwide of the Tissue Engineering Young Investigator Council (Tissue Engineering Editorial B
01/09/2012 Simone Bersini will spend 16 months at the Mechanobiology Lab (MIT)
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Simone Bersini will spend six months at the Mechanobiology Lab headed by Prof. Roger D.
29/08/2012 Meet us at TERMIS-WC 2012 in Vienna (5-8 Sep)!
15/08/2012 Meet us at ESB 2012 in Patras (25-28 Aug)!

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