Home Department: Biology
Supported by: Dean of Research
Mentor: Calvin Kuo, Medicine (Hematology)

Jeffrey Kwong's research in the Calvin Kuo lab investigates the use of primary human organoid cultures in cancer modeling. Using this 3-D culture technique, he is transforming normal human gastric and intestinal organoids with lentivirus to generate tumors with defined oncogenes in order to analyze the development of cancer in a controlled setting.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2014:

Establishing Organoid Cultures of Human Gastrointestinal Tissues

Jeffrey Kwong¹, H. Chuck Zhang¹, Michael Cantrell¹, Brian Deutsch¹, Olivier Gevaert², Xingnan Li¹, J.T. Neal¹, Katie Planey², Steven Wang¹, Calvin Kuo¹
[Department of Medicine (Division of Hematology)¹ and Center for Biomedical Informatics Research², Stanford University]