Gail Seigel, a University at Buffalo researcher, will be among those taking part in a new National Cancer Institutefunded research center that will be headquartered at Cornell University.

The Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis is one of 12 new research centers across the nation that are being funded by the National Cancer Institute through a $13 million grant over five years.

Cornell will serve as the lead institution in a partnership with the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and UB. The center will focus on using nanobiotechnology and other means to advance research on cancer.

Seigel is affiliated with the UB Center for Hearing and Deafness in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She will collaborate on a project that will examine adhesive factors and the interaction between blood cells and cancer cells that are hypothesized to play a role in the progression of tumors and metastasis.