Research We Fund: Extramural Discovery Science (EDS)

Metastasis and Microenvironment (MM)

Areas Reviewed

  • Cell-cell interaction, adhesion, cell polarity, and the signaling events responsible for the pre-invasive to invasive transition and metastatic spread

  • Cellular and molecular events mediating tumor-stroma interactions, tumor-induced alterations of the extracellular matrix, tumor cell dormancy, tumor angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, and the specific niche environment in tumorigenesis
  • Stromal components and their mechanism of interactions within a tumor microenvironment?

Peer Review Committee Members

Co-chair, Traci Lyons, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz

Co-chair, Zach Schafer, PhD, University of Notre Dame

Stakeholder, Joanne Wellman

Paula Bos, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University

Ovijit Chaudhuri, PhD, Stanford University

Lan Coffman, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh (UPMC)

Leah Cook, PhD, National Cancer Institute

Rajan Kulkarni, MD, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University

Greg Lesinski, PhD, MPH, Emory University

Srinivas Malladi, PhD, UT Southwestern

Sandra McAllister, PhD, Harvard University

Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD, University of Michigan

Anirban Mitra, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine

Sara Pedron-Haba, PhD, University of Illinois

Paolo Provenzano, PhD, University of Minnesota

Lei Xu, MD, Harvard University