Ekrem Emrah Er, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. Er received his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University and, after postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, started his own research laboratory at UIC in 2019. 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 are working on identifying new modes of therapeutic intervention.
Ekrem Emrah Er, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago
Research Program
Cancer Biology (CB)
Email: [email protected]
