2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Engineering Cancer

This session highlights the contributions of chemical engineers who are changing the future of cancer diagnosis and treatment. This session explores exosomes, metastasis, development of drug resistance, evasion of the immune response, the impact of mass transport on tumor progression, dormancy, and recurrence and treatments for cancer including immunotherapy and precision medicine.

Chair

Joshua Ramsey, Oklahoma State University

Co-Chair

Thomas Zangle, University of Utah

Presentations

03:30 PM

(233a) CRISPR-Mediated Rewiring of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Regulatory Networks
John Nguyen, Leonidas Bleris

03:50 PM

(233b) JNK-Inhibition Improves Viability in Cytidine-Analog-Treated Melanoma Cells
Shayne Sensenbach, Hanny Ngo, Vahideh Angardi, Prashant Karki, Mehmet Orman

04:10 PM

(233c) ?-Glucan Induced Innate Immune Memory Alters the Tumor Microenvironment and Enhances Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy
Amy Laflin, Erica Wagner, Ronit Kumar, Caitlin O'Sullivan, Elyona Ihegihu, Nathan Brown, Isha Arora, Rachel Hercek, Estefani Quinones, Shaoyi Jiang

04:30 PM

(233d) A Multi-Scale, Optimization-Based Approach to Understanding Sulfur Fates in Integrated Biological and Transport Systems.
Carol Akpan, Lealon Martin, Emmanuel Dada

04:50 PM

(233e) Quantitative Phase Imaging with Patient Derived Models for Cancer Treatment Optimization
Sophie Remick, Tarek E. Moustafa, Edward R. Polanco, Sandra D. Scherer, Emilio Cortes-Sanchez, Benjamin T. Spike, Bryan E. Welm, Philip S. Bernard, Thomas A. Zangle

05:10 PM

(233f) Characterization of the Nano-Scale Surface Roughness of Living Cancer Cells Using a Non-Invasive Interference-Based Approach
Jose C. Contreras-Naranjo, Arul Jayaraman, Victor Ugaz

05:30 PM

(233g) Unmethylated Plasmid DNA Delivery Boosts Survival Against Murine Melanoma
Trishita Chowdhury, Vanshika Singh, Sudhakar Godeshala, Jordan Yaron, Kaushal Rege