Sunday, May 14, 2023     3:45 PM – 5:45 PM ET     Room 202B

Block Symposium

The Tumor Microenvironment: Mechanisms of Tumor Growth and Metastasis

Chairs

• Melanie R. Rutkowski, Univ. of Virginia
• Virginia Shapiro, Mayo Clin.

Speakers

• Seyedehfatemeh Razavipour, Georgetown Univ., C-terminally phosphorylated p27 drives cancer-promoting inflammation 1
• Carlos Oscar Ontiveros, Univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. at San Antonio, Melanocyte PDL1 promotes early tumor progression in a novel autochthonous NRAS-mutant melanoma model
• Geoffrey R. Parriott, Univ. of Chicago, Determining mechanisms of T cell leukemogenesis using E2A^-/- mice
• Yin Chen, Mayo Clinic Grad. Sch. of Biomed. Sci., ST8Sia6 sialylates CD44 in cancer cells to generate ligands for inhibitory Siglecs
• Hinda Najem, Northwestern Univ., Immune spatial differences between short and long-term surviving glioblastoma patients
• Ashley M. Mello, Univ. of Michigan Med. Sch., Hypoxia promotes inflammatory fibroblast formation in pancreatic cancer
• Ashley N. Pearson, Univ. of Michigan Med. Sch., Liver metastases potentiate cancer progression