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

25/06/2012 Meet us at ESB 2012 in Lisbon (1-4 Jul)!
20/05/2012 Silvia Lopa will spend one month at the Laboratory of Biology and Engineering of Cartilage (IBCP)
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab PhD student Silvia Lopa will spend one month at the Laboratory of Biology and Engineering of Cartilage headed by Prof.
02/05/2012 Meet us at ICRS 2012 in Montreal (12-15 May)!
02/04/2012 Margherita Pierro will spend one month at the Bio-Microsystem Lab (University of Tsukuba)
We are happy to announce that CTE-Lab research fellow Margherita Pierro will spend one month at the Bio-Microsystem Lab headed by Prof. Junji Fukuda (University of Tsukuba, JP).
30/01/2012 Welcome to Nathalie Mayer (University of Lyon)!
We are happy to announce that Nathalie Mayer from University of Lyon (FR) will join our group for 6 months as visiting PhD student.

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