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Nathan Reticker-Flynn is an Assistant Professor in Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at Stanford University. He is a biomedical engineer and tumor immunologist whose research focuses on cancer metastasis, tumor evolution, adaptive immunity, and immuno-oncology. His work employs mouse models and systems biology combined with genetic engineering to investigate the interactions between tumors and the immune system in the context of cancer metastasis. He completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering under Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia at MIT, where he studied glycobiology and extracellular matrix interactions that influence cancer metastasis. He continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Edgar Engleman at Stanford, emphasizing systemic immune responses and their role in metastatic progression and immunotherapy. His scholarly interests include employing animal models and synthetic biology to understand tolerance mechanisms and co-evolutionary dynamics that underpin tumor-immune interactions, ultimately striving to develop novel technologies and engineered therapies for treating metastatic disease and immunological disorders.
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