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Gay, Laurie, B.S.
As a TL1 trainee, Laurie Gay investigates the role of coagulation in metastasis. There is both an opportunity and a critical need for breakthrough research in this field since the majority of cancer-related deaths are due to metastasis.
At TSRI, she established mouse models of experimental brain metastasis, and her work is now focused on the mechanisms of tumor cell brain colonization. Laurie is determining how intravascular tumor cells cooperate with the coagulation system during early stages of brain colonization. She hopes that her findings will identify targets for development of therapeutics to prevent cancer metastasis to the brain.
Laurie is a regular participant in oncology rounds at Scripps Health and attends tumor board meetings on patient cases.
Prior to coming to TSRI, Laurie Gay was a lab manager and research assistant at University of California, San Diego. She received a B.S. degree in biological sciences at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA; where she was a research assistant in the marine biology laboratory. She was also a research intern at Onyx Pharmaceuticals in Richmond, CA, and an ESL instructor at Epitech University in Paris, France.