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 * Timothy Ritty
 * Penn State University
 * College of Medicine
 * Departments of Orthopaedics and Pathology
 * Mailcode H089
 * 500 University Drive
 * Hershey, PA, 17033, USA.
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Education

 * Ph.D., Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Health Science Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
 * B.S., Cellular Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

==Research interests==


 * 1)  Metastatic Mechanisms of Osteosarcoma: We are investigating integrin mediated and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) dependent mechanisms of osteosarcoma metastasis.
 * 2)  Sarcoma Biomarker Identification: We are performing proteomic analysis by mass spectroscopy of sarcoma tumor samples using laser capture microscopy and tissue microarrays.
 * 3)   Polymer Scaffolds for Cellular Attachment: We are evaluating cellular attachment to various nano- and micro-scale topologies made with the polymer parylene C.

Publications

 * 1) Paper1 pmid=18821827
 * 2) Paper2 pmid=18006876
 * 3) Paper3 pmid=18838118

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