Gail Seigel, research assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Physiology and Biophysics, will be part of a group of researchers taking part in the new National Cancer Institute-funded Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, headquartered at Cornell University. The center, one of 12 new research centers across the country created by the five-year, $13-million grant, will focus on using nanobiotechnology and other related physical science approaches to advance the research on cancer. Seigel will be involved in one of the center’s three key projects — adhesion of tumor cells in the vascular microenvironment. Read more.