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Presentations in SFB

Jacob and Dr. Tavana will give two oral presentations in the 2021 Society for Biomaterials meeting on our biomaterial-based tumor modeling technology to study tumor microenvironment.

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Paper on drug-induced toxicity

Pouria’s new paper on toxic effects combinations of chemotherapy drugs to normal cells is published in SLAS Technology!

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Sunil’s PhD defense

Sunil successfully passed his PhD defense, well done and congratulations Dr. Singh!

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Paper on cancer migration and metastasis

Pradip’s new paper showing that two natural compounds (fisetin and quercetin) prevent migration, invasion, and metastasis of triple negative breast cancer cells is published in BMC Cancer: P.S. Thakuri et al. BMC Cancer (2020) 20:4, doi: 10.1186/s12885-019-6479-2

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-6479-2
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Paper by undergraduate student

Maddie’s first-authored paper was just accepted in Advanced Therapeutics! Impressively, this is the result of four years of research during her undergraduate studies.

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Research Grant

Dr. Tavana was awarded a new R33 grant from NIH to develop models of human breast tumors that will help understand biology of the disease and facilitate discovery of cancer drugs. Take a look at the media page:

https://uakron.edu/im/news/ua-professor-receives-1-13m-federal-grant-to-further-develop-3d-breast-tumor-models/

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Travel awards to Pradip and Ramila

Pradip and Ramila received travel awards to attend the SLAS 2018 meeting in San Diego and present their research on 3D tumor model and neurogenesis!

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Paper in Oncotarget

Stephanie’s paper on how stromal-cancer cells signaling in a 3D tumor model regulate proliferation and drug resistance of cancer cells is published in Oncotarget!

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Presentations in BMES

Ramila and Pradip presented their research at the BMES 2017 meeting in Phoenix.