Next Generation Organoids: Towards Understanding Cellular Crosstalk in Metastatic Cancer


2022 Momentum Fellow

Anna-Marie Finger, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

Anna-Marie Finger, PhD

Dr. Finger is generating next-generation organoids to uncover crosstalk between cellular and extracellular components of the tumor microenvironment (TME) that drive metastatic transformation.

published research

Karra L, Finger AM, Shechtman LA, Krush M, Meng-Yao Huang R, Prinz M, Tennvooren I, Bahl K, Hysienaj L, Garcia-Gonzalez P, Combes AJ, Gonzalez H, Argüello RJ, Spitzer MH, Roose JP. Single cell proteomics characterization of bone marrow hematopoiesis with distinct Ras pathway lesions. Blood Adv. 2025.

Finger AM, Hendley AM, Figueroa D, Gonzalez H, Weaver VM. Tissue mechanics in tumor heterogeneity and aggression. Trends Cancer. 2025.

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