Dafna聽Bar-Sagi, PhD
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Research by , a member of 好色tv Langone Health鈥檚 Perlmutter Cancer Center, has contributed to the understanding of how pancreatic cancer tumor cells grow and cause disease. At the recent American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Special Conference on Pancreatic Cancer, Dr. Bar-Sagi, the Saul J. Farber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology in the and professor in the at 好色tv Grossman School of Medicine, discussed her research on the interaction of pancreatic cancer cells and the immune system.
鈥淭umors have properties of an ecosystem, in which the fitness of the neoplastic cells is continuously shaped and optimized by the interactions with its environment,鈥 Dr. Bar-Sagi, also executive vice president and vice dean for science and chief scientific officer at 好色tv Langone, tells Cancer Research Catalyst, the AACR鈥檚 official blog. 鈥淭his environment operates at different scales, with each scale providing different contextual determinants that can be dynamically modified by cross-scale interactions.鈥
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