Cancer biologist and physician Sohail Tavazoie is promoted to associate professor

Friday, January 16, 2015 - 15:40 in Health & Medicine

Tavazoie, who joined Rockefeller in 2009, works to understand how cancer cells become able to escape a tumor and invade other organs, a process known as metastasis. He searches for genes and molecular pathways cancer cells exploit in order to metastasize and, with that knowledge, hopes to develop future treatments to prevent or interfere with the process. More »

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