Sarah Amend

Dr. Sarah Amend is a dedicated cancer researcher at the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute of Johns Hopkins University, where she works in the laboratory of Dr. Kenneth Pienta. With a research career spanning over a decade, Dr. Amend earned her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, focusing on the role of the bone microenvironment in skeletal metastasis. She employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore how the tumor microenvironment influences cancer progression, applying ecological paradigms to understand the mechanisms behind metastasis from primary tumors.