Salvatore Coniglio, Ph.D.

Sal Coniglio, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology and Coordinator of the M.S. Biotechnology program at NJCSTM.  Coniglio’s laboratory seeks to understand the communication that occurs between tumor cells and normal cells within the microenvironment, cells of the myeloid lineage in particular. Coniglio discovered that the growth factor CSF-1 is secreted by high grade glioblastoma cells and plays a critical role in mediating disease progression.

Coniglio’s laboratory is currently investigating which factors cooperate with CSF-1 in “reprogramming” the microenvironment and potential therapeutic avenues to disrupt these pathways. Assays commonly employed in the laboratory include: quantitative PCR, SDS-PAGE electrophoresis, ELISAs, Immunofluorescence, Flow Cytometry and Sorting and 3D microenvironment simulation in-vitro.  Coniglio received his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Structural Biology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2008.  He was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow and is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research.