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In this position, you will work on microscopy-integrable measurement technologies used to study three-dimensional cell culture models of breast cancer tissues. This PhD candidate position is supported by the Cell-Scale Biomechanics Lab , and is part of the lab’s recent technology-development projects, aimed at improving the accuracy of drug efficacy screening for chemotherapy. A recent press release on these projects can be found at the following link. 

This position’s focus is on developing engineered systems and methods to quantify the physical interactions between migrating cancer cells and the extracellular matrix, as well as advancing related technologies toward biomedical applications.  The successful candidate will contribute to our lab’s microscale studies on the role of extracellular matrix mechanics, particularly in chemoresistance.  Notably, the biological aspects of chemoresistance and drug efficacy screening will be the responsibility of the lab’s postdoctoral researcher, who will work together with the PhD

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