Ankur Saxena, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biological Sciences

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Research Program

Cancer Biology (CB)

Phone: 312-413-8137

Email: saxenaa@uic.edu

We combine live imaging and quantitative analysis of multicellular dynamics with genetic and molecular perturbation in zebrafish embryos to determine how stem cells form sensory neurons and how pediatric cancer cells survive and metastasize. These seemingly disparate biological processes in fact overlap significantly in their mechanisms and behavior, and understanding those commonalities in vivo could provide new therapeutically-relevant insights into human developmental defects and cancer metastasis. Please see www.saxenalab.com for further details.

Education

PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Disease Focus

Other

Research Keywords

Pediatric Cancer; Developmental Biology; Neuronal Differentiation; Cell Migration; Metastasis; High Resolution Live Imaging; Neuroscience; Systems Biology

Additional Language(s)

Hindi, Spanish

Published Research

PubMed Search

Other Link(s)

Department Webpage

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