Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering faculty Varner and Stroock participate in $13M National Cancer Institute-funded Center on Microenvironment and Metastasis and win NIH RC1-Challenge Grant
November 2, 2009 Two faculty from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Assistant Professor Jeffrey Varner and Associate Professor Abe Stroock, are among the PIs involved in a new $13M NCI Center at Cornell focused on Microenvironment and Metastasis. See http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/NCICenter.html for details. Varner will use his expertise on systems biology and multiscale modeling, and Stroock his novel approaches to vascular systems to look at the role of physio-chemical transducers and their role in tumor angiogenesis.
In addition, Varner and Stroock, with Vivek Mittal, associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Weill Medical, Cornell, and Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, have been awarded a new two-year NIH grant in the RC1-Challenge in Health and Science, using ARRA stimulus funds. These grants address specific challenges in biomedical engineering and behavioral research. The objective of the RC1 grant will be to deveop and utilize vascularized microfluidic tumor models to experimentally and numerically study the role of microenvironmental conditions in tumor angiogenesis. See http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/FischbachARRA.html