Thanks to funding from the state of Florida’s Bankhead Coley (funding a project I talked about before), our group now includes Dr. Etienne Baratchart. Etienne is joining us from the University of Bordeaux in France where he just finished a PhD under the supervision of Sebastien Benzekry and Thierry Colin with a project of modelling the pre-metastatic niche.
Etienne will be working with Chenhao Lo and Conor Lynch to study how macrophages and other stromal cells in the bone impact prostate cancer to bone metastases. Stay tuned!