‘Multi-dimensional cancer-immune cell interaction during metastasis’

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• Xiang Zhang, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
• Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:00-13:00
• Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

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Host: Sakari Vanharanta (SV358@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk)

The co-evolution between cancer and the immune system during metastasis is dynamic and versatile. In syngeneic mammary tumor models, we discovered unexpected functions of type I T helper cells and NK cells in shaping the metastasis process. The former prevents metastasis by promoting vessel normalization, a process involving improved pericyte attachment to endothelium, increased blood perfusion, decreased vessel permeability, and consequently mitigated hypoxia. The latter exerts selective pressures for CTC -clustering and polyclonal metastasis seeding, by eliminating single cell CTCs that have presumably lost epithelial traits. Therapies augmenting T cell and NK cell functions efficiently restrict metastases, although resistance often develops through multiple mechanisms including accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells. Our research uncovered spatiotemporally specific interactions between cancer cells and various immune cells, and cries for in-depth investigations on collective activities of multiple cell types beyond cytotoxic T cells.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series series.

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