Taru Muranen, PhD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Academic Titles

Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Research Program Affiliation

Member, Cancer Cell Biology

Member, Breast Cancer

Research Abstract

My laboratory studies how tumor microenvironment influences drug responses in pancreatic and breast cancer. Our laboratory uses co-culture models, tumor organoids, 3D model systems and proteomics to study how cancer cells develop drug resistance and how tumor microenvironment and the extracellular matrix microenvironment influence tumor cells responses to therapies. Our goal is to develop novel more effective therapies to abrogate tumor microenvironment mediated drug resistance.