2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Cell and Tissue Engineering: Cancer and the Tumor Immune Microenvironment

This session will cover topics in cell and tissue engineering that focus on applications in cancer and immunology, with an emphasis on the tissue microenvironment.

Chair

Marjan Rafat, Vanderbilt University

Co-Chair

Presentations

12:30 PM

(135a) Characterization of Native Extracellular Matrix of Patient-Derived Glioblastoma Multiforme Organoids
Alexandra Avera, Yonghyun Kim

12:48 PM

(135b) mRNA-Engineered Dendritic Cell-Based Adoptive Cell Therapy Enhances Cancer Immune Response
Riddha Das

01:06 PM

(135c) Microfluidically Engineered Platform to Enable Immune Phenotyping on the Single-Cell Scale
Jamie Spangler

01:24 PM

(135d) Macrophage Clustering and Coordinated Intrudopodia Contribute to Solid Tumor Phagocytosis
Lawrence J. Dooling, Alisya Anlas, Michael P. Tobin, Nicholas M. Ontko, Tristan Marchena, Maximilian Wang, Jason C. Andrechak, Dennis E. Discher

01:42 PM

(135e) Phosphatase-Excluding Polymer Micropatches for Enhancing Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes-Based Cancer Therapy
Suyog Shaha, Vinny Chandran Suja, Anujan Ramesh, Kolade Adebowale, Yu Xing Teo, Michael Griffith Bibbey, Leah Lourenco, Bolu Ilelaboye, Tatsuya Fukuta, Danika Rodrigues, Kyung Soo Park, Samir Mitragotri

02:00 PM

(135f) Fluid Forces Inhibit Confined Cell Migration
Dylan Bowen, Farshad Amiri, Panagiotis Mistriotis

02:18 PM

(135g) Invited Talk: Normalizing the Tumor Microenvironment to Improve Immunotherapy of Cancer
Rakesh K Jain