Our Research
Learn more about the goals of the CANCAN research program and how we will achieve these.
Aims
Our team will address the question of the underlying causes of cancer cachexia through four aims:
- Project 1 – Identification of cancer-induced systemic metabolic dysregulation.
- Project 2 – Determination of tumor-immune drivers of cachexia.
- Project 3 – Defining the neuroendocrine response to cancer.
- Project 4 – Identification of clinical cachexia subtypes.
Research News
Team CANCAN Highlighted in the Nature Feature Article “New hope in the fight against cachexia-cancer’s deadly conspirator”
Team CANCAN hosted the 2026 Cancer and the Host Conference in London, bringing together world-leading researchers to advance discoveries in cancer-host interactions, cachexia, metabolism, and patient care.
CANCAN PI’s Eileen White, Tobias Janowitz, and Marcus Goncalves speak at the Metabolism and Cancer: Insights from Obesity and Beyond in Madrid, Spain
Team CANCAN researchers presented groundbreaking cancer cachexia research at the CNIO–CaixaResearch Frontiers Meeting in Madrid, joining leading scientists to advance the understanding of cancer metabolism and cachexia.
Dr. Ezequiel Dantas gets promoted to Assistant Professor at NYU Langone Health
Congratulations to Dr. Ezequiel C. Dantas, who has been promoted to Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of...
