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Ekrem Emrah Er, PhD
Cancer Biology Research Program
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
College of Medicine
Email: eer@uic.edu
Ekrem Emrah Er, PhD, leads the Cancer Center Tumor Microenvironment Working Group, and he is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at UIC. The Er Lab is focused on metastasis research and works to answer a central question in cancer biology: How do disseminated cancer cells grow into metastases in vital secondary organs? Their focus is on biophysical characteristics of the tumor microenvironment, which impacts the interactions between cancer cells, vascular stromal cells and immunity during the outgrowth of lethal metastases. Their work has identified a novel biophysical form of immune surveillance that they termed mechanosurveillance, and they are working on identifying new modes of therapeutic intervention.
Education
- PhD, Harvard University
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Research Focus
- Cancer Biology
- Metastases
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Mechanosurveillance