Engineered Cancer Models for In Vitro Studies I

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York, United States
• JW

  Jessica Winter

  Professor
  The Ohio State University, United States

Moderator(s)

• IW

  Ian Wong

  Associate Professor of Engineering
  Brown University, United States
• 

  Grace Bushnell, PhD (she/her/hers)

  K99 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  University of Michigan
  Plymouth, Michigan, United States

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT

  A microphysiological system reveals neutrophil contact-dependent attenuation of pancreatic tumor progression by CXCR2 inhibition-based immunotherapy
  

  Presenting Author: Shuai Shao, MS (he/him/his) – The University of Texas at Dallas/UT Southwestern Medical Center

  Primary Investigator: Caroline Jones, PhD – The University of Texas at Dallas/UT Southwestern Medical Center
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT

  Patient-Specific Models of the Immune-Competent Tumor and its Microenvironment with Physiological Perfusion
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah Shelton, PhD – North Carolina State University & University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

  Co-Author: Roger Kamm – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: David Barbie – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT

  Developing an Engineered In Vitro Bone Niche for Rapid Cell Adhesion and Early-Stage Interactions of Osteoblasts and Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells
  

  Presenting Author: Weitong Chen, Doctor of Philosophy (he/him/his) – Department of Small Animal Medicine & Surgery, University of Georgia

  Presenting Author: Karen Burg – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Timothy Burg – Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Sara Lewis – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Arjun Kotapalli – 4School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Didier Dreau – University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

  Live Cell Lineage Tracing of Dormant Cancer Cells
  

  Presenting Author: Hyuna Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Co-Author: Anna Wirasaputra (they/them/theirs) – Tufts University

  Co-Author: Aritra Nath Kundu – University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Co-Author: Jennifer Esteves – University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Co-Author: Farnaz Mohammadi – University of California, Los Angeles

  Co-Author: Aaron Meyer – University of California Los Angeles

  Co-Author: Laura Heiser – Oregon Health & Science University

  Primary Investigator: Shelly Peyton – University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PDT

  Multiplexed Immunofluorescence Imaging for Characterizing Compositional Heterogeneity in Tissue-Engineered 3D in vitro Breast Cancer Tumor Aggregates
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth McDonough, MS (she/her/hers) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Primary Investigator: David T. Corr, PhD. (he/him/his) – Biomedical Engineering Department and Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
• 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM PDT

  Angiogenesis-enabled TME-Chip recreates platelet pathophysiology in resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy against ovarian cancer
  

  Co-Author: Lopamudra Ghosh – Texas A&M University

  Presenting Author: Abhishek Jain, PhD – Texas A&M University