About Our Lab
Breast cancer is one type of solid tumor for which the extracellular matrix plays an integral role in disease progression. Increased deposition and remodeling of the extracellular matrix in the tumor microenvironment provides both biochemical and biophysical cues for cancer cells. The Ponik lab is interested in better understanding the specific signaling pathways that are regulated by cell interactions with the extracellular matrix, and how these pathways are involved in the progression of breast cancer.
Ponik Lab News
Congrats to Dr. Hoffmann!
7/23/24 – Erica successfully defended her thesis.
Shelby Fertal achieves a fundable score on her F31 proposal
Nov 2023 – Congratulations to Shelby Fertal on her 12th percentile F31 score!
Erica Hoffman presents at the 2023 Midwest TME Meeting
May 2023 – Erica Hoffman is selected for an oral presentation at the 2023 Midwest TME meeting at Purdue University.
Ponik Lab student presents data at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
May 2023 – Nour Munzer Haidar presents her Bio152 research project investigating how breast cancer risk factors (obesity and breast density) impact inflammatory signaling in normal mammary glands.
Congratulations to Metti Gari!
August 2022 – Ponik lab graduate student, Metti Gari, successfully completed her preliminary exam, “PEG-FUD as an anti-cancer therapy for breast cancer”. She is now a dissertation in the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Program at …
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