Labeled pencil sketches of various pieces of medical laboratory equipment. Also includes depictions of how instruments are used on patients to collect samples.

Cancers are among the most deadly and intractable of human diseases, for which the standard of care may involve aggressive yet only partially effective therapies. Immunot [...]

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has the lowest 5-year survival rate of all major malignancies (11%). In particular, late-stage malignancies have only a 5% 5-year [...]

Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men worldwide. This thesis leverages novel single-cell epigenomic and proteomic approaches to aid in the i [...]

The detection of cancer at its early stages requires the analysis of new biomarkers that are specific to the tumor and have less background than conventional biomarkers. [...]

This thesis work highlights development and applications for both circulating extracellular vesicles (EV) and cell-free RNA (cf-RNA) toward liquid biopsy based early canc [...]

This dissertation aims to present technological and therapeutic innovations to meet clinical needs in the field of cancer detection and treatment. The presented work rev [...]