Georgetown Lombardi Visiting Professor and Grand Rounds Lecture Series Featuring Ellen Puré, PhD

“Implications of Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Stromal Cells and Matrix Remodeling for Progression and Treatment of Solid Tumors”

Presented by: Ellen Puré, PhD
Grace Lansing Lambert Professor
Chair of Biomedical Sciences
Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
University of Pennsylvania

Sponsor: Marc Lippman, MD

Ellen Puré, PhD, is Grace Lansing Lambert Professor and Chair of Biomedical Sciences and Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Puré received her Baccalaureate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and her doctorate at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School. She trained as a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellow and Leukemia Society Special Fellow and then joined the Faculty at the Rockefeller University. In 1992 Dr. Puré moved to Philadelphia where she was on the Faculty of the Wistar Institute until moving to the University of Pennsylvania in 2013.

Dr. Puré is an Associate Director of the Cancer Research Institute and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Investigation and Matrix Biology and is a Founding Senior Editor of Cancer Immunology Research. Dr. Puré’s research focuses on the cellular and molecular basis of inflammation and fibrosis. She studies basic mechanisms involved in these processes and the contribution of these processes to fibrotic diseases and cancer. Her laboratory has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the roles of stromal cells and extracellular matrix remodeling in tissue fibrosis and in cancer risk, initiation, progression and metastasis. Her lab is developing novel therapeutic approaches to target stroma to treat fibrosis and cancer.

In 2019, Dr. Puré was named a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Lecture Series Presented by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center