| This session will highlight engineering approaches to understand problems in cancer, cardiovascular and other diseases and to develop advanced therapeutic strategies. Emphasis will be on studies of transport, heat transfer, kinetics, and cell and tissue mechanics specifically relevant to the areas of tumor biology, metastasis, and vascular pathophysiology.
Topics of interest include angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, cancer cell adhesion and migration, cancer cell signaling and intracellular metabolism. Of specific interest are studies involving novel therapeutic strategies, including molecular/cell-based therapies, with aims to inhibit cancer progression and metastasis and to regenerate new functional blood vessels. |
Structure-Function Relationships in Cardiac Myocytes*
Kit Parker, School of Science and Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Vegf-Signaling on Bone Marrow-Derived Cell Recruitment and Accumulation in Lung Metastases
Michelle R. Dawson, Dan G. Duda and Rakesh K. Jain, Department of Radiation Oncology, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 100 Blossom Street, Cox 7, Boston, MA 02114 |
Molecular And Biophysical Regulators Of Lymphatic Transport
Joseph M. Rutkowki, Carolyn Yong and Melody A. Swartz, EPFL / SV / IBI1 / LMBM1, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Station 15, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland |
Discovery of Specific Tumor Targeting Peptides Using Fluorescent Bacterial Display Libraries
Karen Y. Dane and Patrick S. Daugherty, Chemical Engineering, UCSB, Engineering II, Room 3357, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080 |
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Differential In Vitro Cytotoxicity Of Doxorubicin And 5-Fluorouracil To Cancer And Normal Human Mammary Epithelial Cells
Anand K. Ramasubramanian, UC - Berkeley, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Berkeley, CA 94720 - 1462 and Douglas S. Clark, Chemical Engineering, UC - Berkeley, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Berkeley, CA 94720 - 1462 |
Multilayer Microfluidics For Studying Thrombosis
Keith B. Neeves and Scott L. Diamond, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 3340 Smith Walk, 1150 Vagelos Laboratories, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Fluid Shear Induces Conformation Change In Human Blood Protein Von Willebrand Factor Solution Structure
Indrajeet Singh, Chemical And Biological Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, 303 Furnas Hall, North Campus, AMHERST, NY 14260, Lionel Porcar, NIST Cold Neutron Research Center, National Institute for Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Bldg. 235, STOP 8562, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 and Sriram Neelamegham, Chemical and Biological Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, 303 Furnas Hall, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 |
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