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Research/Areas of Interest:
I remain active in teaching but no longer accept thesis students.
My laboratory developed Chromophore-Assisted Laser Inactivation (CALI) to inactivate specific proteins in living cells at precise times and location. We used CALI with antibody libraries in a high throughput and automated fashion to discover new proteins that act in cancer cell invasiveness identified an extracellular form of Heat Shock Protein 90 (Hsp90) that acts to activate pro-invasive proteins in the tumor microenvironment to increase invasion, the first step in metastasis. We studied how this activation occurs and whether inhibition of extracellular Hsp90 could be a novel treatment to reduce metastasis of breast cancer.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, United States, 1985
- Bachelor of Science, University of Toronto, Canada, 1979