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Summary Sentence: Susan Thomas, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, will speak on "Tumor Lymphangiogenesis and its Implications in Metastasis, Immunity and Therapy."
Full Summary: Georgia Tech has been a leader in the development of collaborative approaches to both cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. The mission of the Integrated Cancer Research Center (ICRC) is to facilitate integration of the diversity of technological, computational, scientific and medical expertise at Georgia Tech and partner institutions in a coordinated effort to develop improved cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.
Susan Thomas, PhD - Assistant Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"Tumor Lymphangiogenesis and its Implications in Metastasis, Immunity and Therapy"
Susan N. Thomas, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Tech
The transport of fluids, biomolecules and cells from the tumor microenvironment to draining lymph nodes and into the circulation is facilitated by the lymphatic vascular system. This drainage process plays a pivotal role in disease progression, in particular by regulating both metastasis and adaptive immunity. Our efforts to characterize this contribution as well as to develop novel therapeutic approaches in tumor therapy that exploit the role of tumor lymphangiogenesis will be described.
