Title: Putting Cancer Stem Cells in Context.
Ilaria Malanchi is head of lab working on tumor-host interactions. Specifically, research conducted in her lab aims at learning 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.
Relevant publications:
Malanchi et al., Nature 2011; 481(7379):85-89.
Malanchi et al., Nature 2008; 452(7187):650-653.
