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URL:https://www.eng.ufl.edu/news-events/events/bme-seminar-learning-from-c
 ows-to-solve-cancer-malignancy/
SUMMARY:BME Seminar: "Learning from cows to solve cancer malignancy"
DESCRIPTION:Kshitiz\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor\,\nDepartment of Biomedica
 l Engineering\,\nUConn Health\nAbstract: Biology rhymes with recurrent the
 mes. These recurrent themes are commonly found to be (mis) utilized in the
  cancer metastatic cascade -- where the uncontrolled growth and spread is 
 predicated on utilizing physiologically normal mechanisms towards a wrong 
 end. In this talk\, we will explore a remarkable correlation that exists b
 etween the evolution of pregnancy in mammals and onset of cancer malignanc
 y. By placing fibroblasts as central players in regulating placental or ca
 ncer invasion\, we have begun to explore the stromal mechanisms that have 
 evolved to regulate epithelial invasion. Our works have shed a newer light
  at the invasive processes at the maternal-fetal interface\, bringing the 
 enquiry on comparative placentation\, as well as pregnancy related disease
 s and cancer metastasis together on the same platform.\nBio: Kshitiz is an
  Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering\, University of Connecticut
  Health. He completed his B.Tech. in Computer Science &amp\; Engineering i
 n IIT Bombay\, India\, and subsequently a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at
  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with Dr. Andre Levchenko and Dr. Gregg S
 emenza working on hypoxia and mechanobiology. He took a brief time off for
  a startup working on a device to mature cardiomyocytes for drug screening
 . Thereafter he came to Yale University at the Institute of Systems Biolog
 y and joined UConn Health as it started its BME program in 2018. His group
  works primarily on cancer microenvironment\, hypoxia\, and pregnancy. Ksh
 itiz is a published author\, and a dance critic.
CATEGORIES:Seminars
LOCATION:Biomedical Sciences Building (BMS) Room JG32\, 1275 Center Drive\,
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