Current projects in the Irish lab aim to personalize therapies by probing millions of cells in tissue biopsies and then using machine learning computational tools to identify and target cells that behave abnormally. Ken Lau, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology (CDB) at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The central goal of his research lab is to understand how the inflammatory microenvironment, the so-called “niche”, signal to epithelial cells to alter their phenotypes.