Richard Minshall, PhD

Richard Minshall, PhD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. He joined UIC in 2000. The Minshall lab is focused on understanding how structural and scaffolding functions of caveolin-1 regulate formation and trafficking dynamics of caveolae, cell communication, adhesion, transmigration, proliferation and differentiation during inflammatory injury and repair/remodeling. The lab is interrogating pathophysiological mechanisms that lead to increased permeability, thrombosis, and remodeling of the microvasculature relevant to cancer cell survival, growth, and metastasis. It also is developing treatment strategies that target these pathological mechanisms in endothelial cells, fibroblasts and cancer cells.

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WGN Features CHESS Student Jaden Blankenship

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