Vicki Plaks

Vicki Plaks
Specialist, The lab of Prof. Zena Werb
University of California, San Francisco, USA

Biography

Vicki Plaks presently a specialist in The lab of Prof. Zena Werb, University of California, San Francisco and she completed her Ph.D. degree, from The Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel and the topic of her Ph. D. thesis is In vivo MRI studies of angiogenesis in reproduction and embryonic development in transgenic mice. She has experience with cases of birth complications and oncology during her internship led her to pursue research at the Weizmann Institute, Israel her M.Sc. studies focused on understanding drug mechanism of action and therapeutic response to a novel anti-cancer vascular photodynamic therapy. Her postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF, California focused on mechanisms governing mammary biology and breast cancer. She is having membership in American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Member, Society for the Developmental biology (SDB), Member, Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR), Member and Vicki Plaks is honored with many awards and fellowships.

Research Interest

Adult epithelial stem cells and breast cancer , reproductive biology.
The study of tissue microenvironment with a special emphasis on the contribution of immune cells (dendritic cells, macrophages and T cells) as well as extracellular matrix proteins (mat rix metalloproteinases).