
2014 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Joy Wu, Medicine (Endocrinology)
Lance is investigating the utility of parathyroid hormone (PTH) as a potential treatment of metastatic bone disease. In particular, he is performing various transwell migration assays to study the effects of PTH on the chemotactic invasion/migration of metastatic breast tumor cells to osteoblasts.
Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2014:
The Utility of Parathyroid Hormone in Regulating the Migration of Breast Cancer Cells to Osteoblasts In Vitro
Lance Bettinson1, Srilatha Swami1, Joy Y. Wu1
[Department of Medicine (Division of Endocrinology)1, Stanford University]