Author: alexandermuir6009

Thank you to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network for supporting our work identifying new vulnerabilities of pancreatic cancers driven by their abnormal microenvironments!

Congratulations to Juan for winning the Best Dissertation Award for the Committee on Cancer Biology at the 2023 Convocation!

Muir lab was busy at ASCB presenting 4 posters and 3 talks on how microenvironmental metabolic stress reprograms pancreatic cancer cells!

Congratulations to Guillaume Cognet on being awarded a Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Francois Wallace Monahan Fellowship for his studies on how nutrients contribute to chemotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer!

Congrats to DR. Juan Apiz Saab for successfully defending this thesis!

Thanks to Nada Kalaany for writing an eLife Insight about Juan and Lindsey’s recent eLife paper co-published with work from Marina Pasca di Magliano’s and Costas Lyssiotis’ teams.

Juan covers how tumor interstitial fluid analysis can improve our understanding of how the tumor microenvironment alters cancer and immune cell biology.

Congrats Juan!

Alex a great time talking with Natalia Mesa about his career in science and where where the field of tumor metabolism is going! Link.

Belated congratulations to Juan for being named the 22-23 Harper Fellow at University of Chicago for his work on metabolic stress and pancreatic cancer. Harper Fellowship is only awarded to 1 student in each division who conducted the most impact thesis research, so a huge accomplishment! Very proud!

Our latest work on how microenvironmental metabolic stress impacts the biology of pancreatic cancer cells has been published!

Big congratulations to first authors Juan and Lindsey for leading this study! Built a great new model system to grow tumor resident cells with tumor physiological nutrition and study the impact on their biology.