Robert Vessella, University of Washington

Key Challenge:

• Development of the technologies that will allow us to isolate viable single metastatic cells and then interrogate those individual cells for molecular signatures and biological behavior.   This remains a huge challenge especially in the study of dormancy.

Background Papers:

• Extracellular matrix: A gatekeeper in the transition from dormancy to metastatic growth 
• Tumor Dormancy and Metastasis