The Viapiano Lab studies malignant brain cancers (gliomas) and the responses of the neural environment in presence of tumor cells. Our goal is to understand how brain tumors take advantage of their microenvironment and to target those mechanisms in order to improve brain cancer treatments.
Our reseach includes the study of brain tumor growth, invasion, angiogenesis, and escape from immune responses.Ou research also involves the development of targeting agents against novel antigens on the surface and in the extracellular matrix of glioma cells.
The Viapiano Lab is the core laboratory of the Brain Tumor Research Group at the State University of New York – Upstate Medical University, located in Syracuse, NY. Our facilities include the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, and the Brain Tumor Laboratory and Biorepository in the Department of Neurosurgery. Both laboratories are located part of the Institute for Human Performance located in the core of the SUNY Upstate medical campus.
