From MIT World
“Screens are revealing a lot of different mechanisms by which metastatic cells learn new tricks, and suborn the mechanism of the host to get them where they’re going. The appealing thing is, these alterations offer opportunities for therapies: you can interfere with circuits between cells, restore growth suppression, interfere with blood vessel formation.” Richard Hynes
"About the Speaker
RICHARD O. HYNES PHD '71
Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Richard Hynes received his B.A. in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, U.K., and his Ph.D. in biology from MIT. After postdoctoral work at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, where he initiated his work on cell adhesion, he returned to MIT as a faculty member.
Hynes is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He has received the Gairdner Foundation International Award for achievement in medical science and recently served as president of the American Society for Cell Biology."
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