XAVIER LAB

Sloan Kettering Institute
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

EXPERIMENTS · PATIENT DATA · MATHEMATICAL MODELS

Microbiomeecology for bettercancer care.

We study how the gut microbiome shapes cancer outcomes, and how to protect and restore these microbial ecosystems during treatment.

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Confocal microscopy of densely packed red bacteria bordered by cyan bacterial clusters, showing the spatial structure of a microbial community.

Microbial communities, seen up close.
Microscopy: Ben Wucher / Xavier Lab