John D. Aleman, BA, BS

Graduate Student
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado

What are your long-term career objectives?

“The spread of oral cancer is deadly. I seek to determine how oral cancer cells manipulate their surroundings so they can spread to the lungs and avoid the immune system. The results of these studies will help determine patients at increased risk of cancer expansion and identify new ways to target high risk oral cancer. My long-term career goal is to become a principal investigator at an academic institution investigating head and neck cancer.”

Abstract #4206: Regional transcriptomic profiling of the head and neck squamous cell carcinoma tumor microenvironment paired with murine models identify extracellular matrix components that mediate tumor progression and immune suppression.

Poster Session: PO.TB11.08