Home Department: undeclared
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Peter Jackson, Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology

David’s work is to examine how the Kras oncogene regulates cell migration and adhesion, an important determinant of how cancer cells move within the body. Using proteomic and bioinformatic methods, he is looking for unknown factors that could couple cell migration to tumor metastasis, the deadliest part of cancer progression.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 24, 2017:

How to Feed a Cancer Cell: The KRAS Gene and Macropinocytosis

David Wu¹, Marcus Kelly^1,2, Peter K. Jackson^1,3
[Departments of Immunology & Microbiology¹ and Cancer Biology² and Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology³, Stanford University]