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SU2C 3.1416 Convergence Research Team:
Intra-Team Collaboration:
The Multi-organ Organoid Chemostat Group

Grant Term: January 2021-December 2023

This SU2C Convergence Research Team is a collaborative team that seeks to build and populate a new device to culture gut organoids with stem cells, lymphoid tissue, and a microbiome. The Team will apply molecular, biochemical, and biophysical technologies to address additional fundamental questions in tumor-host interactions: tumor evolution, the effects of the immune system and the microbiome, and determinants of regenerative plasticity.

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ABOUT THIS TEAM'S RESEARCH

This collaborative team seeks to build and populate a new device to culture gut organoids with stem cells, lymphoid tissue, and a microbiome.  The Team will apply molecular, biochemical, and biophysical technologies to address additional fundamental questions in tumor-host interactions: tumor evolution, the effects of the immune system and the microbiome, and determinants of regenerative plasticity.  The Team will use the chemostat platform developed to study various organoid types and explore their interactions with immune cells. Using the blood exchange method, the Team plans to uncover soluble and cellular mediators of immune response.

Detecting Gastric Cancer

MEET THE TEAM

The top scientists and researchers on the SU2C Convergence Research Team: Intra-team Collaboration: The Multi-organ Organoid Chemostat Group come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, which leads them to great insights upon collaboration. Learn more about the SU2C Convergence Research Team: Intra-team Collaboration: The Multi-organ Organoid Chemostat Group.

Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD
Leader
Stanford University

TEAM PROGRESS UPDATES

Stand Up To Cancer’s research projects are designed to foster collaborative, swift translational research. The hallmarks of these efforts include rigorous application and selection procedures, sufficient funding to allow scientists to focus on the objectives of the grant, and reviews by senior scientists every six months. These reviews help the investigators capitalize on the latest findings, address potential roadblocks, and collaboratively evolve as the science requires. Please click on the link to see summaries of research results so far for the Convergence 3.1416 Research Team: Intra-Team Collaboration: The Multi-organ Organoid Chemostat Group.

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Cancer clinical trials allow researchers to study innovative and potentially life-saving new treatments. The goal is to find treatments that are better than what’s currently available; in fact, the therapies offered to today’s cancer patients were almost all studied and made possible by people participating in clinical trials. But many cancer clinical trials aren’t completed because not enough people take part.

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