Dissecting the biomechanical events underlying tumor invasion, angiogenesis and metastasis

GOETZLAB
RESEARCH AXIS
Biomechanics is a key component of the metastatic cascade:
Our laboratory focuses on the late stages of this process, namely dissemination, arrest and extravasation of circulating cancer cells (CTCs), as well as the importance of factors secreted by the primary tumor,
in particular extracellular vesicles (EVs). This is articulated around four major axes.




FORCE AXIS
Body fluids and their impacts on tumor progression and metastatic dissemination
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Study of circulating tumor cells (CTCs)
G. Follain & al. (2021) - Sci. Reports
N. Osmani & al. (2019) - Cell Reports
G. Follain & al. (2018) - Dev. Cell
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Gensbittel & al. (2020) - Dev. Cell
G. Follain & al. (2020) - Nat. Cancer Rev
EXPLORE AXIS
Role of extracellular vesicles (EVs, exosomes in particular) during the metastatic process
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Formation of
pre-metastatic niches
Ghoroghi & al. (2021) - eLife
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V. Hyenne & al. (2019) - Dev. Cell
Verweij & al. (2019) - Trends in Cell Bio.
TREAT AXIS
Impact of blood platelets during the metastatic process, particularly their interplay with CTCs
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Leveraging immunotherapy with nanomedicine
V. Mittelheiser & al. (2020) - Adv. Thera.
in coll. with A. Detappe
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B. P. San Juan & al. (2019) - Cancers
in coll. with C. L. Chaffer
NANOTUMOR
Coordination of the NanoTumor Consortium, initiated on Dec. 2019
and until May 2023
(in coll. with P. Schultz & al.)
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Towards the tumor cell atlas
F. Colin & al. (2021) - Bio. of the Cell
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NanoTumor Website

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Jacky G. Goetz - GoetzLab Members
CRBS – Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine de Strasbourg
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