Melissa Skala
Credentials: Biomedical Engineering Department
Position title: Metabolism, cancer, microscopy
Email: mcskala@wisc.edu
Address:
Morgridge Inst Research
330 N Orchard St
Madison, WI 53715
LAB WEBSITE:
FOCUS GROUPS:
Cellular & Molecular Metabolism; Cancer Biology; Immunology
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION:
Dr. Skala’s lab develops biomedical optical imaging technologies for cancer research, cell therapy, and immunology.
Current projects focus on tumor immunology and immunotherapy, cell-level metabolic heterogeneity, and cell-cell
interactions. Collaborative projects leverage these unique photonics-based tools for clinical problems, including quality
control in T cell and stem cell therapies, designing personalized treatment plans for cancer patients, monitoring
diseases in the eye, discovering new therapies for a range of diseases, and many others. Projects are highly diverse
and range from translational research to hypothesis-driven questions to algorithm / instrumentation development.
ALSO A TRAINER IN THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS: Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics, Cellular & Molecular Pathology Graduate Program (CMP)