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Ilaria Malanchi joins the LRI as Group Leader
Submitted by goodwi02 on Tue, 05/07/2011 - 13:09
We welcome new lab head, Ilaria Malanchi, responsible for the Tumour Host Interaction Laboratory to the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Laboratories.
Ilaria Malanchi joined the LRI at Lincoln’s Inn Fields at the beginning of June. She is group leader of the Tumour Host Interaction laboratory.
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| Ilaria Malanchi |
Cancer is a disease of the entire organism as the malignant mass is inducing local and systemic changes to allow its growth. The lab is interested in understanding how tumours modulate the cross-talk with the host microenvironment at the primary and the metastatic sties. They will focus on the adjustment induced in the immune system in order to favour growth.
Ilaria states, 'The aim of our lab is to understand the crosstalk tumour cells establish with the host organism and the modifications they induce in their microenvironment. We aim to learn how some changes in the organism (such as chronic inflammation) can favour tumour onset, how tumour cells can evade detection from the immune system, and what metastatic cells need from the target organ to settle and to re-start tumour growth at distant sites. Our final aim is to gain sufficient information enabling us to find strategies to interfere with this essential tumour-host crosstalk. Consequently, we wish to define new effective anti-cancer therapies.'
