Tumor Environment & Metastasis Members
The Tumor Environment & Metastasis (TEAM) Program uses an integrative approach to elucidate key molecular interactions between tumor cells and components of the host stromal microenvironment including matrix, vascular structures and cells of the immune system.
Folsch, Heike
Research Associate Professor
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Understanding how epithelial cells establish and maintain apical-basolateral polarity through continuously sorting transmembrane proteins to their correct target domains. Our focus is on sorting event... [more]
Fourati, Slim
Assistant Professor
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My research focuses on the use of bioinformatic analysis of high-throughput data (like RNA-Sequencing, Flow cytometry) to identify biological mechanisms associated with the immune response to perturba... [more]
Gao, Peng
Research Assistant Professor
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Identification, semi-quantification and quantification of primary and secondary metabolites from biological samples such as cultured cells, tissues and body fluids. Preclinical and clinical cancer res... [more]
Gelfand, Vladimir
Professor
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Cytoskeleton, motor proteins, cell movement, microtubules, actin, kinesin, dynein, myosin, neurodegenerative diseases.
Gottardi, Cara
Associate Professor
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Expertise in how cells adhere to each other, what constitutes dynamic versus static adhesion at the molecular level, and how the state of cell-cell adhesion is interpreted by the nucleus to control ge... [more]
Green, Kathleen
Professor
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Our work has established that in addition to playing a critical role in cell-cell adhesion, desmosomal cadherins serve as signaling scaffolds that dictate cell behavior and control the balance of prol... [more]
Heimberger, Amy
Professor
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I am a physician-scientist and a board-certified Neurosurgeon with extensive training and experience in the field of immunology. My laboratory is focused on elucidating the mechanisms of tumor-mediate... [more]
Horvath, Curt
Professor
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My laboratory focuses on the molecular events controlling inducible gene regulation, with focus on the production of and response to cytokines and especially interferon and IFN-JAKSTAT signal transdu... [more]
Jin, Jing
Assistant Professor
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Our research focuses on the synthetic design of recombinant fusion proteins for biotherapeutic, diagnostic, and disease modeling purposes. One of the general themes of our designs is to achieve target... [more]
Johnson, Jodi Lynn
Research Assistant Professor
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I am a Scientific Director and the Basic Research Program Coordinator for the Lurie Cancer Center. I work to bring cross-disciplinary teams of researchers together to ask complex research questions, t... [more]