Teresa Monkkonen

About

Teresa Monkkonen is an Assistant Professor at San Diego State University, located in the United States. Her research focuses on fibroblast heterogeneity and functions, particularly in the contexts of wound healing, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and melanoma. She has contributed to recent studies on autophagy in stromal fibroblasts and the implications for tumor desmoplasia and mammary tumorigenesis, as well as the mechanisms involving RNA-binding proteins in extracellular vesicles.