December 2017 Grantees
Kathryn Arbour, MD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Gregory J. Riely, MD, PhD
Project Title: Combination MEK and FGFR inhibition in KRAS mutant NSCLC: A Phase I/II Trial of Trametinib and Ponatinib
Awarding Agency:
Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research
Hannah Lynn Fassel, MD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Pediatrics
Project Title: Annexin A2 Enables Regulated Endothelial Cell Secretion of von
Willebrand Factor in vivo
Awarding Agency:
Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society
Michael David Kinnaman, MD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Pathology
Lab Head: Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD., PhD
Project Title: Clonal Evolution in Osteosarcoma
Awarding Agency:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
November 2017 Grantees
Francisco M Barriga, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Scott W. Lowe, PhD
Project Title: Dissecting the role of large genomic
deletions in colorectal cancer
metastasis
Awarding Agency:
Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center
Tzu-Pei Chang, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Kitai Kim, PhD
Project Title: Inhibition of tumorigenesis and
metastasis by NEPN
Awarding Agency:
Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center
Alexandre Francou, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Developmental Biology
Lab Head: Kathryn Anderson, PhD
Project Title: Regulation and quantitative dynamic
analysis of EMT in vivo
Awarding Agency:
Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center
Oliver Harschnitz, PhD
Title: Research Scholar
Department/Program: Developmental Biology
Lab Head: Lorenz Studer, MD
Project Title: Unravelling pathogenic mechanisms
of anti-NMDAR encephalitis using
human stem cell based disease
models
Awarding Agency:
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Jing Hu, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Joan Massagué, PhD
Project Title: Dissecting the roles of STING
signaling pathway in cancer
metastasis
Awarding Agency:
Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center
Edward R Kastenhuber, BSE
Title: Graduate Student
Department/Program: Molecular Biology
Lab Head: Kenneth J. Marians, PhD
Project Title: Intratumoral Heterogeneity and Tumor Evolution in Lymphoma
Awarding Agency:
National Cancer Institute
Efstahios Stamatiades, PhD
Title: Research Scholar
Department/Program: Immunology
Lab Head: Ming Li, PhD
Project Title: Immunosurveillance of Early Disseminated Tumor Cells by Innate Lymphoid Cells and Innate-like T Cells.
Awarding Agency:
Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center
Enrico Velardi, PhD
Title: Research Associate
Department/Program: Immunology
Lab Head: Marcel R. M. van den Brink, MD, PhD
Project Title: Strategies to enhance
post-transplant immune
reconstitution
Awarding Agency:
National Marrow Donor Program
Rocio Vicario, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Immunology
Lab Head: Frederic Geissmann, MD, PhD
Project Title: Signaling pathways driving
histiocytic neoplasms
Awarding Agency:
American Association for Cancer Research
Zhenghan Wang, PhD
Title: Research Scholar
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Joan Massagué, PhD
Project Title: Understanding the role of TGF-signaling in metastatic latency.
Awarding Agency:
Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center
October 2017 Grantees
Elham Azizi, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Computational Biology
Lab Head: Dana Pe’er, PhD
Project Title: Characterizing cellular heterogeneity
in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Awarding Agency:
American Cancer Society
Gaspare La Rocca, PhD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Craig B. Thompson, MD
Project Title: A novel mouse model to study
microRNA dynamics in vivo
Awarding Agency:
National Institute of Health
Francisco Sanchez Vega, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Nikolaus Schultz, PhD
Project Title: Identifying the genomic basis of
organ-specific metastasis
Awarding Agency:
Brown Performance Group
Shipra Shukla, PhD
Title: Research Associate
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Yu Chen, MD, PhD
Project Title: HNF4G/HNF1A as novel biomarkers
and therapeutic targets in
castration-resistant prostate cancer
Awarding Agency:
National Cancer Institute
Joana Vidigal, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD
Project Title: CRISPR tools to systematically study
the roles of RBPs in mammals
Awarding Agency:
National Institute of Health
September 2017 Grantees
Lukas M. Carter, PhD
Title: Research Scholar
Department/Program: Radiology
Lab Head: Jason S. Lewis, PhD
Project Title: Development of a Novel Peptide Platform for Targeted PET
Imaging and Radiotherapy of Breast Cancer
Awarding Agency:
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Francisco Sanchez-Rivera, PhD
Title: Research Scholar
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Scott W. Lowe, PhD
Project Title: 2017 Hanna H. Gray Fellows
Awarding Agency:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Konrad Stopsack, MD, MPH
Title: Research Associate
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Philip W. Kantoff, MD
Project Title: YIA: Intratumoral Cholesterol
Metabolism to Guide Prostate
Cancer Therapy
Awarding Agency:
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Zeda Zhang, B.S.
Title: Graduate Student
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Charles L. Sawyers, MD
Project Title: Role of the tumor microenvironment in promoting drug resistance in castration resistant prostate cancer
Awarding Agency:
National Cancer Institute
August 2017 Grantees
Stanley Lee, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Omar I. Abdel-Wahab, MD
Project Title: Defining Novel Genetic Dependencies in Spliceosome Mutant Leukemia
Awarding Agency:
National Cancer Institute
Ping Mu, PhD
Title: Research Associate
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Charles L. Sawyers, MD
Project Title: Overcome the lineage plasticity conferred targeted therapy resistance in advanced prostate cancer
Awarding Agency:
National Cancer Institute
Kona Senevirathne, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Chemical Biology
Lab Head: Minkui Luo, PhD
Project Title: Cancer Pharmacology
Awarding Agency:
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Matthew Sorbara, PhD
Title: Research Scholar
Department/Program: Immunology
Lab Head: Eric G. Pamer, MD
Project Title: Limiting antibiotic-trigged expansion of Klebsiella pneumoniae in the gastrointestinal tract
Awarding Agency:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
July 2017 Grantees
Michael Cheng, MD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: David B. Solit, MD
Project Title: YIA: Mediators of intrinsic sensitivity and acquired resistance to PARP inhibition for the treatment of BRCAmutant
Awarding Agency:
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Nitya Gulati, M.B.B.S,F.A.AP
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Pediatrics
Lab Head: Ari M. Melnick, MD
Project Title: Molecular mechanisms of acquired resistance to EZH2i
Awarding Agency:
St. Baldrick’s Foundation
Prakrit Jena, PhD
Title: Research Associate
Department/Program: Molecular Pharmacology
Lab Head: Daniel A. Heller, PhD
Project Title: Cancer Pharmacology Training Grant
Awarding Agency:
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Ping Mu, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Charles L. Sawyers, MD
Project Title: Identifying the SYNCRIP Gene Deletion as a Novel Biomarker of Antiandrogen Resistance in Advanced Prostate Cancer
Awarding Agency:
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Juan Schvartzman, MB/BChir PhD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Craig B. Thompson, MD
Project Title: Effects and mechanisms of oncogenic IDH mutations on cellular differentiation
Awarding Agency:
The Hope Funds for Cancer Research
Jie Su, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Joan Massagué, PhD
Project Title: Dissecting TGFß-Induced Lethal EMT in KRAS-Driven Pancreatic Cancer
Awarding Agency:
Revson Foundation Charles H.
Justin Taylor, MD
Title: Medical Oncology & Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Omar I. Abdel-Wahab, MD
Project Title: Biological and Mechanistic Effects of XPO1 Alterations in Hematopoietic Malignancies
Awarding Agency:
American Society of Hematology
Eneda Toska, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Craig B. Thompson, MD
Project Title: Mechanisms of KMT2D regulation by the P13K pathway
Awarding Agency:
Revson Foundation Charles H.
Christopher Wardlaw, PhD
Title: Research Scholar
Department/Program: Molecular Biology
Lab Head: John Petrini, PhD
Project Title: S-phase dynamics of the Mre11 complex as a barrier to cancer
Awarding Agency:
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
Ryan Williams, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Molecular Pharmacology
Lab Head: Daniel A. Heller, PhD
Project Title: Targeting Acute Kidney Injury with Mesoscale Nanoparticle Therapeutic
Awarding Agency:
American Heart Association
June 2017 Grantees
Andrew Dunbar, MD
Title: Hematology/Oncology Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Ross L. Levine, MD
Project Title: EZH2 as a therapeutic target in ASXL1-mutant myelofibrosis
Awarding Agency:
American Association for Cancer Research
Aditi Gupta, PhD
Title: MD-PhD Student
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD
Project Title: HHMI Medical Research Fellows Program 2017
Awarding Agency:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Catherine Ly, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Surgery
Lab Head: Babak Mehrara, MD
Project Title: Tissue-engineered lymph node transplantation for the treatment of lymphedema
Awarding Agency:
Plastic Surgery Foundation
Allison Mayle, PhD
Title: Research Scholar
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Scott W. Lowe, PhD
Project Title: Tissue-engineered lymph node transplantation for the treatment of lymphedema
Awarding Agency:
American Cancer Society
David Van Dijk, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Computational Biology
Lab Head: Dana Pe’er, PhD
Project Title: Characterizing heterogeneity and drug resistant populations in high-grade serous ovarian cancer using single-cell RNA sequencing
Awarding Agency:
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
May 2017 Grantees
Robert Bowman, PhD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Ross L. Levine, MD
Project Title: Interrogating the subclonal architecture and functional contributions of mutation order in FLT3-ITD mutant AML
Awarding Agency:
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Travis B. White, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Developmental Biology
Lab Head: Maria Jasin, PhD
Project Title: The role of the BRCA2-DSS1 interaction in maintenance of genomic stability
Awarding Agency:
American Cancer Society
April 2017 Grantees
Anthony Daniyan, MD
Title: Medical Oncology & Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Renier J. Brentjens,MD, PhD
Project Title: The Development of a Genetically Engineered Dendritic Cell-based Immunotherapy Platform for the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Andrew Dunbar, MD
Title: Hematology/Oncology Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Ross L. Levine, MD
Project Title: Role of concurrent ASXL1 and JAK2 mutations in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs)
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Aaron Goldberg, MD, PhD
Title: Hematology/Oncology Fellow
Department/Program: Leukemia Service
Lab Head: Martin Tallman, MD
Project Title: Development of combination epigenetic therapy and immunotherapy as a novel therapeutic modality to eradicate minimal residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Ciara Marie Kelly, MBBChBAO
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: William Tap, MD
Project Title: Sequenced Cell Free DNA (cfDNA) in the Management of Patients with advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST)
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Wei-Chu Victoria Lai, MD
Title: Medical Oncology & Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Charles Rudin, MD, PhD
Project Title: Combining a WT1 Cancer Vaccine (SLS-001) with Checkpoint Inhibition (Nivolumab) in Patients with WT1-Expressing Pleural Malignant Mesothelioma: A Phase I Study
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Rajarsi Mandal, MD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Timothy A. Chan, PhD
Project Title: Investigating the Genomic and Immunologic Determinants of Response to Anti-PD-1 and Anti-CTLA-4 Therapy using CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Anna McKenney, MPH, PhD
Title: MD-PhD Student
Department/Program: Radiology
Lab Head: James Young, MD
Project Title: Texture feature and 4D texture kinetic analyses of dynamic contrast enhanced T1 MRI perfusion of pseudoprogression in glioblastoma
Awarding Agency:
Radiological Society of North America
Alexandra M Miller, PhD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Neurology
Lab Head: Stephen Long, PhD
Project Title: Effectors of mutant IDH1 in glioma
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA
Title: Medical Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Peter Bach, MD
Project Title: Defining the early impact of Accountable Care Organizations on cancer care
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Justin Taylor, MD
Title: Medical Oncology & Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Lab Head: Omar I. Abdel-Wahab, MD
Project Title: Spliceosomal Modulation in the Therapy of Spliceosomal Mutant Myeloid Neoplasia
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Oladapo Yeku, MD, PhD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Renier J. Brentjens,MD, PhD
Project Title: Modulation of the tumor microenvironment by IL-12 secreting CAR T cells
Awarding Agency:
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Dimitrios Zattas, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Structural Biology Program
Lab Head: Christopher D. Lima, PhD
Project Title: Mechanistic studies on the functional role of the HOTAIR long noncoding RNA in the ubiquitination pathway
Awarding Agency:
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
March 2017 Grantees
Mark B. Geyer, MD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Renier J. Brentjens,MD, PhD
Project Title: CD19-targeted CAR T-cells engineered to Secrete IL-12 for relapsed or refractory CLL and B-cell NHL
Awarding Agency:
Lymphoma Research Foundation
Scott James, MD, PhD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Immunology
Lab Head: Marcel R. M. van den Brink, MD, PhD
Project Title: Chimeric antigen receptors to inhibit graft vs. host disease, while preserving graft vs. malignancy
Awarding Agency:
National Marrow Donor Program
Patricia M. Ribeiro Pereira, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Radiology
Lab Head: Jason S. Lewis, PhD
Project Title: Modulating HER2 trafficking systems for improved immunoPET and radioimmunotherapy of Bladder Cancer
Awarding Agency:
The Tow Foundation
Jacob D. Soumerai, MD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD
Project Title: Dual inhibition of BTK and PI3K-delta in CLL and indolent B cell lymphomas
Awarding Agency:
Lymphoma Research Foundation
Tai Wang, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Chemical Biology
Lab Head: Gabriela Chiosis, PhD
Project Title: Chaperome therapies for curative lymphoma treatment
Awarding Agency:
Lymphoma Research Foundation
Xiang Zhang, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Cancer Biology & Genetics
Lab Head: Richard White,MD, PhD
Project Title: The role of adipocytes in melanoma
Awarding Agency:
National Cancer Institute
February 2017 Grantees
Ya-Yuan Fu, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Alan Hanash, PhD
Project Title: Three-dimensional analysis of GI GVHD pathophysiology
Awarding Agency:
American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Luisa Escobar Hoyos, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Human Oncology & Pathogenesis (HOPP)
Project Title: mRNA splicing in pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Awarding Agency:
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR
Marina Stasenko, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Graduate Medical Education
Lab Head: David Spriggs, MD
Project Title: Development of a high-affinity anti-Galectin-3 antibody targeting interactions between MUC16/CA-125 and Galectin-3 to inhibit oncogenic properties in serous ovarian cancer models
Awarding Agency:
Foundation for Women's Cancer
Shuichiro Takashima, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Medicine
Lab Head: Alan Hanash, PhD
Project Title: A novel ex vivo model of gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease
Awarding Agency:
American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Jiajun Zhu, PhD
Title: Research Scholar
Department/Program: Graduate Medical Education
Lab Head: Craig B. Thompson, MD
Project Title: Defining the molecular determinants of cysteine acquisition and redox homeostasis in B cell lymphoma
Awarding Agency:
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
January 2017 Grantees
Kathryn Arbour, PhD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Graduate Medical Education
Project Title: Combination MEK and FGFR inhibition in KRAS mutant NSCLC: A Phase I/II Trial of Trametinib and Ponatinib
Awarding Agency:
Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research
Kimon Argyropoulos, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Immunology
Lab Head: Marcel R. M. van den Brink, MD, PhD
Project Title: Study of the role of endothelial cells in thymic regeneration and T-cell restoration after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Awarding Agency:
American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Benjamin Cyge, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Developmental Biology
Project Title: Regulation of primary cilia formation in endoderm development and repair
Awarding Agency:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Zihou Deng, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Immunology
Lab Head: Frederic Geissmann, MD, PhD
Project Title: Roles of Macrophage subsets in tumorigenesis
Awarding Agency:
Cancer Research Institute
Alejandra Mendoza, PhD
Title: Research Fellow
Department/Program: Immunology
Project Title: Role of “non-immune” functions of regulatory T cells in tissue homeostasis and cancer development
Awarding Agency:
Cancer Research Institute
Katharine Offer, PhD
Title: Fellow
Department/Program: Graduate Medical Education
Project Title: The role of exosomal microRNA in neuroblastoma progression, metastasis, and recurrence in the CNS
Awarding Agency:
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation
Project Title: The role of exosomes in neuroblastoma metastasis to the bone and bone marrow
Awarding Agency:
EVAN Foundation