Acs Research - Theorylab

For this conversation we brought together an MD, an MD/PhD, and a PhD working in a clinical department. Their research is all relevant to inflammation and is relevant to colorectal cancer, but they’re coming at it from different directions. Ronen Sumagin, PhD, of Northwestern University, is interested in the immune system and inflammation. Jason C. Mills, MD, PhD, of Washington University, St. Louis, is focused on the upper part of the GI tract and in how inflammation affects stem cells. Iswar K. Hariharan, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley, works on Drosophila and is interested in what regulates cell growth. Highlights include: 7:30 – “We’re interested in the interactions between the cancer cells and their almost normal neighbors and trying to find ways in which we can perhaps empower the normal cells to kick the cancer cells out of the epithelium.” 9:25 – “In the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma field there’s a series of experiments that culminated in one that exemplified both the infl