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Jinchun Wu, PhD
"Identifying cytoplasmic nucleases that shatter micronucleated chromosomes"
University of California, San Diego
Simon Sretenovic, PhD
"High-throughput precision genome editing for dissecting complex traits in yeast and human cell lines"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Yoshiki Sakai, PhD
"How do tumors evade cell extrusion?"
University of California, Berkeley
David S. Roberts, PhD
"Defining the molecular landscape and native interactome of the Siglec-sialoglycan axis in disease"
Stanford University
R. Camille Brewer, PhD
"Defining how early-life microbial encounters sculpt the B cell repertoire and shape vaccine responses"
University of California, Berkeley
Layla J. Barkal, MD, PhD
"Using commensal skin bacteria for potent, antigen-specific T cell therapy"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Steven M. Corsello, MD
"Targeting intrinsic immune signaling in pancreatic cancer with small molecule therapeutics"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Jakob Wirbel, PhD
"Microbial genome variation in hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation patients"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Fanglue Peng, PhD
"Humanize CXCL13 expression in mouse to understand lymphoid neogenesis in cancer"
University of California, San Francisco
Ronghui Zhu, PhD
"Mapping and modeling the human CD4+ T cell differentiation gene regulatory network"
Gladstone Institutes
Lucia Ichino, PhD
"Mechanisms underlying cis-regulatory rewiring and chromatin reorganization during epithelial to mesenchymal transition"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Gabriel Cavin-Meza, PhD
"Leveraging polyploid Xenopus to probe spindle adaptation to increases in genome size"
University of California, Berkeley
Youngmu (Nick) Shin, PhD
"Exploring phase condensation as a general mechanism for organizing cell-cell communication assemblies"
University of California, San Francisco / Washington University
Joshua B. Sheetz, PhD
"Mitochondrial ubiquitylation mechanisms to exploit metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer"
University of California, Berkeley
Ben F. Brian, PhD
"Mechanisms and consequences of microbiota-directed immune responses"
University of California, Berkeley
Melody Smith, MD
"Regulatory mechanisms of the intestinal microbiome on chimeric antigen receptor T cells"
Stanford University
Daniel J. Delitto, MD, PhD
"Pathogen sensing in fibroblasts restrains antitumor immunity in pancreatic cancer"
Stanford University
Xiaowei Yan, PhD
"Spatial organization and inheritance regulation of oncogenic extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA)"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Tadashi Manabe, MD, PhD
"Characterization of oncogenic kinase signaling by membraneless cytoplasmic protein granules"
University of California, San Francisco
Wen Mai Wong, PhD
"Modulation of neuronal circuitry using sonogenetics"
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Erron W. Titus, MD, PhD
"Engineered cellular fusogens for novel immune effector functions"
University of California, San Francisco
Felix C. Boos, PhD
"Inter-organ communication of protein homeostasis stress responses in vertebrate aging"
Stanford University
Debadrita Bhattacharya, PhD
"Investigating molecular and cellular mechanisms of intra-tumoral heterogeneity in small-cell lung cancer"
Stanford University
David Y. Oh, MD, PhD
"Co-receptors modulating anti-tumor activity of human cytotoxic CD4+ effector cells"
University of California, San Francisco
Akanksha Thawani, PhD
"Targeted genetic supplementation by harnessing transposable elements"
University of California, Berkeley
Caitlin F. Bell, MD
"Smooth muscle cell plasticity in the tumor microenvironment: another parallel between atherosclerosis and cancer"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Haripriya Vaidehi Narayanan, PhD
"Developing a mechanistic multi-scale framework relating signaling and spatiotemporal dynamics in B-cell affinity maturation and lymphomagenesis"
University of California, Los Angeles
Qinheng Zheng, PhD
"Drugging K-Ras(G12D) with targeted covalent inhibitors"
University of California, San Francisco
Bo Gu, PhD
"Understanding and engineering combinatorial gene regulation in mammalian cells"
California Institute of Technology
Georgia R. Squyres, PhD
"Spatiotemporal regulation of eDNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms"
California Institute of Technology
Fangyu Liu, PhD
"Discovery of novel ligands that treat metabolic disorders"
University of California, San Francisco
Danielle Grotjahn, PhD
"Uncovering structural mechanisms of mitochondrial fragmentation in cancer by cellular cryo-electron tomography"
The Scripps Research Institute
Yajing Gao, PhD
"Characterize the role of non-vesicular cholesterol transport in CD8+ T cell function"
University of California, Los Angeles
Lauren E. Cote, PhD
"Constructing one continuous digestive tract, cell by cell"
Stanford University
Seungsoo Kim, PhD
"Transcription factor cooperation shaping TWIST1 multifunctionality across craniofacial development and cancer metastasis"
Stanford University
Timothy J. Eisen, PhD
"Mechanistic dissection of Tec kinases in immune-cell signaling"
University of California, Berkeley
Yunxiao Zhang, PhD
"Sensory innervation of the pancreas"
The Scripps Research Institute
Jiao Sima, PhD
"Cellular mechanisms linking sleep disturbance and cancer development"
University of California, Berkeley
Tristan Wold Owens, PhD
"Molecular mechanisms of heat shock transcription factor 1 in cancer"
University of California, San Francisco
Anusha Kalbasi, MD
"IL13Ra2 Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells for metastatic melanoma"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Andrew L. Ji, MD
"Cancer cell-extrinsic and intrinsic control of tumor progression and intratumoral heterogeneity"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Hang Xu, PhD
"Investigating the dynamics of chromosomal instability in cancer"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Kouki Touhara, PhD
"Investigating chemical signaling between gut enteroendocrine cells and intrinsic primary afferent neurons"
University of California, San Francisco
Katy Ong, PhD
"Long-range tumor-host signaling mechanisms driving paraneoplastic syndromes"
University of California, Berkeley
Colleen N. McLaughlin, PhD
"Cell surface mechanisms of neural circuit assembly"
Stanford University
Julia Su Zhou Li, PhD
"Spatial regulation of the inheritance of genomic abnormalities in cancer cells"
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Alistair B. Russell, PhD
"Impact of heterogeneity on the cellular recognition of influenza"
University of California, San Diego
Kavita Y. Sarin, MD, PhD
"Genetic contributions and novel therapies for individuals with frequent basal cell cancer"
Stanford University
Peng Wu, MD, PhD
"Understanding and modulating aberrant differentiation in hepatoblastoma" 
Stanford University
Zulekha A. Qadeer, PhD
"Targeting TGFb pathway dependencies in Group 3 Medulloblastoma" 
University of California, San Francisco
Christina L. Hueschen, PhD
"Molecular basis and regulation of apicomplexan parasite motility"
Stanford University
Thomas H. Mann, PhD
"Calcium signaling and the molecular clock of T cell exhaustion"
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Jessica Sheu-Gruttadauria, PhD
"Probing the dynamic organizational network of membraneless organelles through systems-level analysis and imaging"
University of California, San Francisco
Collin M. Blakely, MD, PhD
"Mechanisms of incomplete response and primary resistance to the 3rd generation EGFR inhibitor osimertinib in lung cancer"
University of California, San Francisco
Catherine C. Smith, MD
"RNA Polymerase II as therapeutic target in AML with RAS activation"
University of California, San Francisco
Deepshika Ramanan, PhD
"Identifying functions of regulatory T cell subsets in intestinal inflammation and colorectal cancer"
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Richard W. Baker, PhD
"Understanding the mechanism of SWI/SNF-mediated chromatin remodeling and its misregulation in cancer"
University of California, San Diego
Jiaxi Wu, PhD
"Mechanism of dendritic cell missing-self recognition and migration to activate CD4 T cell responses"
University of California, San Francisco
Albert G. Tsai, MD, PhD
"Diagnosis of hematologic malignancies from paucicellular aspirate material using highly multiplexed single cell analysis"
Stanford University
Niranjan Srinivas, PhD
"Mutual repression, bistability, and switch-like decisions during development"
University of California, Berkeley
Christopher J. Cambier, PhD
"In vivo characterization of mycobacterial cording"
Stanford Universities
Keren I. Hilgendorf, PhD
"Role of ciliary IGF-1/AKT signaling in ciliogenesis, adipogenesis, and tissue regeneration"

Stanford University School of Medicine
Casey A. Gifford, PhD
"Dissecting the role of pioneer transcription factors in cancer progression"
Gladstone Institutes
Kathrin Leppek, PhD
"Mechanistic characterization of 5’UTR RNA elements that confer translational specificity to shape vertebrate embryonic development"
Stanford University
Duy P. Nguyen, PhD
"Genome editing via an engineered RNA-guided nuclease to create cancer genetic models"
University of California, San Francisco
Fuguo Jiang, PhD
"Molecular mechanisms of guide RNA: target dsDNA binding and PAM recognition by CRISPR-Cas9"
University of California, Berkeley
Yin Liu, PhD
"Sensing lung tumors by pulmonary sensory neurons"
Stanford University
Thomas M. Norman, PhD
"Identifying the stochastic determinants of drug resistance"
University of California, San Francisco
Andrew L. Wolfe, PhD
"The therapeutic potential and biological effects of targeting oncogenic KRAS"
University of California, San Francisco
Magdalena E. Potok, PhD
"The relationship between epigenetic gene silencing, nuclear architecture, and genome stability"
University of California, Los Angeles
Jeanine L. Van Nostrand, PhD
"Elucidating the AMPK-dependent regulation of mTOR signaling in the metabolic checkpoint of tumorigenesis"
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Neel H. Shah, PhD
"Interrogating ZAP-70 substrate recognition using high-throughput mutant screening"
University of California, Berkeley
Qi Hu, PhD
"Design of inhibitors of cancer-associated mutant GNAS"
University of California, San Francisco
Joseph D. Schonhoft, PhD
"Probing the relation between sequence, agrregation and proteotoxicity in cardiac amyloidoses caused by free antibody light chains"
The Scripps Research Institute
Erin F. Simonds, PhD
"Single-cell analysis and targeting of signaling networks in glioblastoma tumor-initiating cells"
University of California, San Francisco
Rohith K. Srivas, PhD
"Longitudinal profiling of host-microbiome interactions in obese patients during drastic weight loss"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Lyndsay M. Murrow, PhD
"Fate specification of mammary stem cells by cell self-sorting"
University of California, San Francisco
Gina V. Caldas, PhD
"Analysis of CSR- function in C. elegans embryonic cell division"
University of California, Berkeley
Liron Bar-Peled, PhD
"Identification of cysteine liabilities in NRF2-driven cancers"
The Scripps Research Institute
Jessica P. Lao, PhD
"Identifying metabolic targets of the DNA damage checkpoint"
University of California, San Francisco
Justin M. Crest, PhD
"Cells, ECM, and the mechanical forces that regulate organ shape"
University of California, Berkeley
Michael A. Cianfrocco, PhD
"How does dynein achieve processivity?"
University of California, San Diego
Tracy T. Chow, PhD
"Investigating and engineering non-canonical telomere maintenance mechanisms in human cells"
University of California, San Francisco
Alex Pollen, PhD
"Regulation of proliferation, migration and angiogenesis by genes uniquely expressed in human neural stem cells"
University of California, San Francisco
Andrew R. Nager, PhD
"Dissecting the mechanism of selective diffusion into the primary cilium"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Lisa R. Racki, PhD
"Polyphosphates and stationary phase survival"
California Institute of Technology
Beverly J. Piggott, PhD
"Brain tumor suppression by mutation(s) of the voltage-gated sodium channel Para"
University of California, San Francisco
Özlem Aksoy, PhD
"Understanding the role of translational control in humanized mouse models for medulloblastoma"
University of California, San Francisco
Guillem Pratx, PhD
"Adding a new dimension to flow cytometry: radionuclide-activated cell sorting"
Stanford University
Elçin Ünal, PhD
"Reducing cancer susceptibility by attenuating cellular aging"
University of California, Berkeley
David K. Breslow, PhD
Dissecting the role of the ciliary transport machinery in oncogenic signal transduction
Stanford University School of Medicine
Nicholas T. Ingolia, PhD
"Cis-regulatory code for the translational control of gene expression"
University of California, Berkeley
Jean Y. Tang, MD, PhD
"Mechanisms of acquired resistance to Hedgehog pathway inhibitors in basal cell carcinomas"
Stanford University

Colorado

Nicole M. Hoitsma, PhD
"Chromatin remodeler SMARCAD1 in DNA repair"
University of Colorado Boulder
Dylan M. Parker, PhD
"Stress granule regulators and their roles in cancer progression"
University of Colorado Boulder
Edward M. C. Courvan, PhD
"Functional analysis of post-transcriptional RNA regulation in hypoxic macrophages"
University of Colorado Boulder
Sabrina L. Spencer, PhD
"Causes and consequences of rapid cancer cell adaptation to MAPK pathway inhibitors"
University of Colorado Boulder

Connecticut

Hui (Vivian) Chiu, PhD
"The neuroimmune basis of fatigue"
Yale University
Allison L. Didychuk, PhD
“Understanding the mechanism of genome packaging in oncogenic herpesviruses"
Yale University
Jung-Shen Benny Tai, PhD
"From form to function: Cell shape, cell ordering, and gene regulation in bacterial biofilm"
Yale University / Michigan State University
Luisa F. Escobar-Hoyos, PhD
"Understanding RNA splicing in tumor-cell adaptation and anti-tumor immunity"
Yale University School of Medicine
Mandar D. Muzumdar, MD
"Targeting endocrine-exocrine signaling in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma progression"
Yale University School of Medicine
Jason M. Crawford, PhD
"Elucidating the bacterial determinants of colorectal cancer"
Yale University
Seyed Fakhreddin Torabi, PhD
"Evolution of triplex-forming RNAs from random sequences: a search for additional MALAT1-like triplex motifs"
Yale University
Zhuobin Liang, PhD
"Mechanistic dissection of the Fanconi anemia pathway in coordinating R-loop processing and DNA repair"
Yale University School of Medicine

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Courtney Ellison, PhD
"The regulation and function of type IV pili in Acinetobacter biofilm formation"

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Joshua A. Weinstein, PhD
"A novel DNA microscopy platform for rapid discovery of immunogenic tumor neoantigens"
Xiaoyu Zhang, PhD
“Discovery of chemical probes that support targeted protein degradation in human cancer”
Jaehyuk Choi, MD, PhD
"Development of novel therapeutic strategies for aggressive CTCL subtypes"
Sarah Z. Tasker, PhD
"Synthesis and evaluation of a collection of complex molecules biased for penetration of the blood-brain barrier"
John D. Leonard, PhD
"Self-antigen recognition by regulatory T cells"

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Fyza Y. Shaikh, MD, PhD
"Defining microbiome stability and longitudinal shifts as biomarkers of tumor response to immune checkpoint inhibitors across multiple malignancies"
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Claudia A. Rivera Cifuentes, PhD
"Endogenous retroviruses modulation of intestinal immune homeostasis and tumor development"
National Institutes of Health
Cayla E. Jewett, PhD
"Mechanisms of centriole number control in multiciliated cells"
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jamie B. Spangler, PhD
"Engineered multispecific antibody-drug conjugates as novel cancer immunotherapeutics"
Johns Hopkins University
Marco A. Catipovic, PhD
"In vitro reconstitution of ribosome collision dependent signaling”
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Challice L. Bonifant, MD, PhD
"Dual-antigen targeting by ENG-T cells as improved anti-AML therapy"
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Boris Zinshteyn, PhD
"Mechanisms of splicing-independent nonsense-mediated mRNA decay"
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Daniel E. Webster, PhD
"Identification and analysis of LncRNAs regulating diffuse large B cell lymphoma"
National Cancer Institute
Danfeng Cai, PhD
"Protein crowding and protein folding landscapes as predictors of healthy and diseased cell states"
National Institutes of Health
Vu Quang Nguyen, PhD
"Role of chromatin organization in dynamics of transcription initiation"
Johns Hopkins University
Christopher M. Jewell, PhD
"Harnessing intra-lymph node controlled release to study and enhance tumor immunity"
University of Maryland

Massachusetts

Rocío D. M. Saavedra-Peña, PhD
"Probing sensory pathways in gut mechanosensation"
Harvard Medical School
Ian J. Roney, PhD
"Discovery and characterization of bacteriophage effectors of bacterial immune systems"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sangwoo Park, PhD
"Engineering novel CAR T cells targeting cancer glycocalyx barrier"
Massachusetts General Hospital
Expery O. Omollo, PhD
"Elucidating what determines the strength of bacterial transcription terminators"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chaiheon Lee, PhD
"Development of haptenizing chimeras for neoantigen generation"
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Lachelle D. Weeks, MD, PhD
"Predicting leukemia risk from peripheral blood smears"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Megan L. Insco, MD, PhD
"Targeting cancer-associated aberrant RNA to treat metastatic melanoma"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Erin M. Parry, MD, PhD
"Defining follicular lymphoma transformation: molecular basis, detection and therapeutic vulnerabilities"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Katelyn King
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Rebecca L. Zon, MD
"Defining the mechanism of thrombosis in patients with multiple myeloma"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Vignesh Shanmugam, MD
"Uncovering microenvironmental dependencies in follicular lymphoma"
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ahmed Roman, PhD
"Signal bottleneck theory for dissecting gene interactions in pancreatic cancer"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Wendy Xueyi Wang, PhD
"Dissecting the molecular identity and contents of neuronal synapses using spatially resolved RNA sequencing"
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Alon Chappleboim, PhD
"Uncovering signaling mechanisms in somitogenesis through high-throughput genetic screens in robust human organoids"
Harvard University
Isabella Fraschilla, PhD
"Examining bacteria as a source of tumor antigens"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anders B. Dohlman, PhD
"Identifying the genomic basis for Fusobacterium nucleatum’s colonization of colorectal cancers"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Pu Zheng, PhD
"An integrated imaging- and sequencing-based spatial-omic method to study tumor evolution"
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Sylvan C. Baca, MD, PhD
"Epigenetic drivers of resistance to novel therapies for bladder and kidney cancer"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Nina Weichert-Leahey, MD
"Elucidating the role of KAT6A and KAT6B in the epigenetic reprogramming of neuroblastoma to enforce neuronal differentiation"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Mounica Vallurupalli, MD
"Defining the mechanistic implications of SF3B1 mutations in MDS"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Erin E. Duffy, PhD
"Activity-dependent changes in RNA stability as a mechanism for synaptic plasticity"
Harvard Medical School
James Osei-Owusu, PhD
"Structure and inhibition of the relaxin receptor RXFP1"
Harvard Medical School
Archana Krishnamoorthy, PhD
"Mechanisms of chromosome fragmentation generating chromothripsis"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School
Ryan Y. Muller, PhD
"Elucidating PABPC1 sequence preferences and determining how these preferences shape gene regulation"
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Max Jan, MD, PhD
"Programming next-generation NK cell therapies using targeted protein degradation"
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ryan A. Flynn, MD, PhD
"Tools to target novel cell surface ligands in cancer"
Boston Children's Hospital
Lucas Farnung, PhD
"Understanding the mechanistic basis of gene expression regulation by MLL complexes in cancers"
Harvard Medical School
Mark B. Leick, MD
"Engineering novel CAR T cells for AML: translating lessons from correlative studies and other diseases"
Massachusetts General Hospital
Wallace A. Bourgeois, MD
"Characterizing mechanisms of resistance to Menin inhibitors in KMT2A-rearranged and NPM1-mutant AML"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Xiphias Ge Zhu, PhD
"Charting the tumor antigen landscape of breast cancer"
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Heidi E. Klumpe, PhD
"The design principles of stable aggregation"
Boston University
Manuel Osorio Valeriano, PhD
"Molecular and structural basis of gene expression regulation by the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex in human cancer"
Harvard Medical School
Senén D. Mendoza, PhD
"Discovery and characterization of bacterial immunity against RNA phages"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J. Scott P. McCain, PhD
"Estimating growth rates and fluxes using gene expression: Theory and applications"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xin Gu, PhD
"Characterization of a novel pathway regulating the protein degradation of immediate-early genes"
Harvard Medical School
Nora Kory, PhD
"Targeting mitochondrial transporters in cancer"
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Srinivas R. Viswanathan, MD, PhD
"X marks the spot: exploring how X-chromosome alterations drive sex differences in cancer"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Patrick Woida, PhD
"Functional dissection of the bacterial-host interface during cell-to-cell spread"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry R. Kilgore, PhD
"Subcellular pharmacokinetics"
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Fangtao Chi, PhD
"Understanding how ketone body metabolites influence intestinal stemness, immune responses and tumorigenesis"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles H. Adelmann, PhD
"Systematic exploration of the organellar and cellular requirements of pigmentation"
Massachusetts General Hospital
(Peter) Geon Kim, MD
"Elucidating the mechanisms of inflammation in clonal hematopoiesis"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Albert E. Kim, MD
"Using liquid biopsy and MRI to non-invasively identify therapeutic targets for brain metastases"
Massachusetts General Hospital
Hannah A. Grunwald, PhD
"Unraveling the role of molecular capacitors that obscure cryptic genetic variants in fish"
Harvard Medical School
David M. Walter, PhD
"Identifying the selective mechanism behind U2AF1 mutations in lung adenocarcinoma"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Madi Y. Cissé, PhD
"Integration on oncogenic signaling and nutrient sensing by mTOR in tumors"
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kara L. McKinley, PhD
"Physiology and pathology of the uterus"
Harvard University
Nora Kory, PhD
"Mitochondrial transporters in metabolite compartmentalization and homeostasis"
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Rongxin Fang, PhD
"Genome-scale imaging of enhancer-promoter interactions in cancer at single cell resolution"
Harvard University
Stefan Niekamp, PhD
"Understanding the switch: Competition between chromatin remodeler and polycomb repressive complexes"
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mark R. Sullivan, PhD
"Identifying requirements for lung infection by opportunistic pathogens"
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jingchuan Luo, PhD
"Deciphering roles of nuclear-mitochondrial communication in cellular homeostasis"
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Rachel Segal Greenberg, PhD
"Developing functional diversity in interoceptive circuits"
Harvard Medical School
Birgit Knoechel, MD, PhD
"Mechanisms of CD8+ T-cell dysfunction and its therapeutic targeting in T-ALL"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Elisa A. Aquilanti, MD
"Targeting telomerase in glioblastoma"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Shou-Wen Wang, PhD
"Inferring cell fate choice from clonal and transcriptomic data, with application to hematopoiesis"
Harvard Medical School
Benjamin M. Stinson, PhD
"Mechanism of DNA processing during non-homologous end joining"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Lindsay B. Case, PhD
"Understanding the physical principles that regulate cell signaling"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian B. Liau, PhD
"Investigating allosteric mechanisms regulating DNA methyltransferase enzymes"
Harvard University
Michael E. Birnbaum, PhD
"Decoding and reprogramming tumor-infiltrating T cells by pMHC-targeted lentiviruses"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Liron Bar-Peled, PhD
"Identification of redox vulnerabilities in genetically defined cancers"
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jon McGinn, PhD
"Dissecting the genetic networks underlying host subversion during Rickettsia infection"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matthew G. Oser, MD, PhD
"Dissecting and therapeutically exploiting synthetic lethality between NOTCH and TRIM28 to drive anti-tumor immunity in SCLC"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Thomas R. LaBar, PhD
"Elucidating the mechanisms of cellular evolution with experimental evolution"
Harvard University
Grace E. Kenney, PhD
"New enzymatic routes towards nitrogen-nitrogen bond formation in diverse cytotoxic natural products"
Harvard University
Kunitoshi Chiba, PhD
"Elucidating tissue specificity of cancer"
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Gabriel K. Griffin, MD
"Enhancing cancer immunotherapy through epigenetic modulation of the repetitive genome"
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Edmond M. Chan, MD
"Validating a novel synthetic lethal target for microsatellite unstable cancers"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jan P. Schuemann, PhD
“Using extreme dose rates to protect healthy tissue in proton radiation therapy”
Massachusetts General Hospital
Alexandra-Chloé Villani, PhD
"Deciphering the Achilles' heel of cancer immunotherapy"
Massachusetts General Hospital
Aaron L. Moye, PhD
"Role of Lgr6-expressing mesenchymal cells in lung cancer initiation and progression"
Boston Children's Hospital
Ge Zheng, PhD
"Novel approaches to targeting zinc-finger domain of the transcription repressor BCL11A"
Boston Children's Hospital
Matthew Bakalar, PhD
"Predicting the interactions of T cell receptors with peptide-MHC complexes"
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Sarah Naomi Olsen, PhD
"Targeted degradation of the MLL-AF9 fusion oncoprotein in acute myeloid leukemia"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harshabad Singh, MBBS
"Epigenetic evolution of pancreatic adenocarcinoma during combination chemotherapy"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Eric S. Fischer, PhD
"Novel mechanisms for small molecule induced targeted degradation of RRM family proteins"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Benjamin R. Sabari, PhD
"Biomolecular condensates in normal and diseased gene regulation"
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Xin Zhou, PhD
“Designing signaling proteins to enact anti-tumor responses"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School
Sakiko Suzuki, MD
"Inflammatory cell death pathways in Myelodysplastic Syndromes"
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Christopher J. Gibson, MD
"The biology and clinical implications of clonal hematopoiesis in cancer patients"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Nora Kory, PhD
"Identifying new components of mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism"
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Jose M. Ordovas-Montanes, PhD
"Single-cell genomic approaches for tracing the contribution of inflammation to human colon cancer"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter M. K. Westcott, PhD
"Exploiting endogenous mutational processes in cancer to enhance response to immunotherapy"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Justin A. Bosch, PhD
"Characterizing novel molecules and mechanisms that mediate cell-cell communication"
Harvard Medical School
Brian J. Beliveau, PhD
"Decoding Polycomb-mediated gene regulation in single cells with single-molecule super resolution imaging and synthetic biology"
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Philip B. Abitua, PhD
"Developmental mechanisms of killifish cell dispersion and aggregation"
Harvard University
Caitlin A. Brennan, PhD
"Mechanisms underlying Fusobacterium nucleatum-driven colorectal cancer"
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sungwook Woo, PhD
"Crystal-free crystallography using programmable 3D DNA crystal frameworks"
Harvard University
Tony Yu-Chen Tsai, MD, PhD
"Cell sorting in zebrafish neural tube development"
Harvard Medical School
Timothy D. Martin, PhD
"Investigating the role of aneuploidy and haploinsufficiency in driving tumorigenesis"
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Kai Mao, PhD
"Mechanisms of xenobiotic surveillance and regulation"
Massachusetts General Hospital
Hume Akahori Stroud, PhD
"Understanding the mechanism and roles of changes in chromatin composition in the brain"
Harvard Medical School
Neil T. Umbreit, PhD
"Elucidating the mechanism of chromosome bridge resolution"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Wenwen Fang, PhD
"Mechanism and regulation of primary-microRNA processing"
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Justin L. Sparks, PhD
"Replicative helicase bypass of bulky DNA adducts?"
Harvard Medical School
Xiaoxiao Shawn Liu, PhD
"Examining the biological function of 5-hmC modification in the mammalian genome"
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Mark W. Zimmerman, PhD
"Elucidating the mechanism of CHD5-mediated tumor suppression in neuroblastoma"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Shuibin Lin, PhD
"Molecular and cellular characterization of a novel LincRNA in neuroblastoma"
Boston Children's Hospital
Scott Haihua Chu, PhD
"The role of DOT1L in pediatric leukemias"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Amanda Balboni Iniguez, PhD
"Targeting the EWS-FLI oncoprotein in Ewing sarcoma with CDK12/13 inhibitors"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ann Mullally, MD
"Determining the role of aberrant growth factor signaling in maintaining disease-propagating cells and mediating JAK2 inhibitor resistance in myeloproliferative neoplasms"
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Loretta S. Li, MD
"Mechanisms of disease and resistance in CRLF2-rearranged B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Michigan

John R. Prensner, MD, PhD
"Therapeutic opportunities and biological mechanisms for protein-RNA dyssynchrony in medulloblastoma"
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
McLane Watson, PhD
"Understanding CD8 T cell epigenetic changes fueled by S-adenosylmethionine metabolism for improved adoptive cell therapy"
Van Andel Institute
Daniel R. Wahl, MD, PhD
"Targeting metabolic interactions in the glioblastoma microenvironment to overcome therapy resistance"
University of Michigan
Phillip L. Palmbos, MD, PhD
"Targeting TRIM29 to reverse immune checkpoint inhibitor resistance in bladder cancer"
University of Michigan
Ryan D. Baldridge, PhD
"Investigating the mechanism of retro-translocation by ERAD"
University of Michigan
Jens C. Schmidt, PhD
"Single-molecule analysis of telomerase recruitment to telomeres"
Michigan State University
Swathi Yadlapalli, PhD
"Neural and genetic basis of metabolic regulation"
University of Michigan

Minnesota

Nicholas N. Jarjour, PhD
"Antigen-independent proliferation of tissue-resident memory T cells and therapeutic applications"
University of Minnesota
Lexy von Diezmann, PhD
"Single-molecule dynamics of DNA repair assemblies in live cells"
University of Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Mary M. Mullen, MD
"COPS5 as a novel therapeutic target in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer"
Nathan Singh, MD
"Tailored cellular engineering to overcome costimulation-driven CAR T cell dysfunction"
Washington University
Kelly L. Bolton, MD, PhD
"The use of ivosidenib in IDH1-mutated clonal cytopenia of undetermined significance"
Washington University School of Medicine
Gavin P. Dunn, MD, PhD
"Characterizing the immunogenic landscapes of malignant brain tumors"
Washington University
Vivek K. Arora, MD, PhD
"Defining a targetable oncogenic dyad in bladder cancer"
Washington University
Stephen T. Oh, MD, PhD
"Leveraging NFkB pathway dysregulation for therapeutic benefit in myeloproliferative neoplasms"
Washington University

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

Esteban A. Orellana Vinueza, PhD
"tRNA dysregulation and cancer"
St. Jude

New Jersey

Cheng Yang, PhD
"Chemoproteomic platforms for deciphering and drugging redox regulation between methionine and methionine sulfoxide in pancreatic cancer"
Princeton University
Jeremy A. Owen, PhD
"The biophysics of substrate recognition in chromatin remodeling"
Princeton University
Juner Zhang, PhD
"Developing tools to decode endogenous protein monoaminylation"
Princeton University
Carolina Trenado-Yuste, PhD
"Screening migratory modes and drug delivery schedules in 3D spheroids of triple-negative breast cancer cells"
Princeton University
Titas Sengupta, PhD
"Investigating bacterial small RNA-mediated regulation of host behavior"
Princeton University
Grace E. Johnson, PhD
"Defining quorum-sensing signaling patterns and their effects on gene expression and morphology in V. cholerae biofilms at the single-cell and community levels"
Princeton University
Cong Ma, PhD
"Modeling spatial organization and interactions among genetic and epigenetic states across cancer types"
Princeton University / Washington University
Aaron E. Lin, PhD
"Contact tracing within an organism: developing a genome editing platform to record the history of virus-infected and transformed cells"
Princeton University
Antony J. Burton, PhD
"Sculpting chromatin architecture in live cells using protein chemistry"
Princeton University
Natasha M. O'Brown, PhD
"Molecular and cellular regulators of blood-brain barrier function"
Rutgers University

New Mexico

Cheng Yang, PhD
"Chemoproteomic platforms for deciphering and drugging redox regulation between methionine and methionine sulfoxide in pancreatic cancer"
Princeton University
Jinchun Wu, PhD
"Identifying cytoplasmic nucleases that shatter micronucleated chromosomes"
University of California, San Diego
Simon Sretenovic, PhD
"High-throughput precision genome editing for dissecting complex traits in yeast and human cell lines"
Stanford University School of Medicine
Wenzhi Song, PhD
"Neuroimmune: cancer stem cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment"
The Rockefeller University
Yoshiki Sakai, PhD
"How do tumors evade cell extrusion?"
University of California, Berkeley

New York

Wenzhi Song, PhD
"Neuroimmune: cancer stem cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment"
The Rockefeller University
Nalin Ratnayeke, PhD
"Dissecting heterogeneous cellular responses to oncogenic KRAS inhibition in pancreatic adenocarcinoma"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michael V. Gormally, MD, PhD
"Immunologic targeting of 'undruggable' TP53 hotspot mutations through T cell receptor gene therapy"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jayati Mondal
Sangita Chakraborty
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Xiaoli Mi, MD
"Origin and evolution of long-lived CAR T cells in patients with hematologic malignancies"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Isabella N. Grabski, PhD
"A probabilistic framework for deconvolving causal mechanisms of cancer therapeutics with genetic perturbation screens"
Daniel J. Puleston, PhD
"A new platform to study cancer biology and therapy in humans"
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Santosha A. Vardhana, MD, PhD
"Overcoming metabolic suppression of anti-tumor immunity in gastric cancer"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Andrew L. Ji, MD
"Dissecting spatial crosstalk in squamous cell carcinoma arising in organ transplant recipients"
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Nicole M. Cruz, MD
"Understanding the role of KMT2D in MLL-AF9 acute myeloid leukemia"
The Rockefeller University
James Swann, VetMB, DPhil
"Emergency myelopoiesis pathways as common drivers of clonal dominance and disease progression in acute myeloid leukemia"
Columbia University
Mingjian Du, PhD
"The gut-brain axis mediating overnutrition"
Columbia University
Elvin Wagenblast, PhD
"Untangling the evolutionary dependency of childhood leukemia"
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Aaron D. Viny, MD
"Epigenetic coupling of DNA methylation and chromatin structure on leukemic transformation and therapeutic response"
Columbia University
Mira A. Patel, MD
"Molecular mechanisms of human APOE-mediated myeloid cell modulation in cancer"
The Rockefeller University
Sukrit Singh, PhD
"Physics-driven prediction of drug-resistant clinical mutations to improve precision oncology"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center / Stony Brook University
Dian Yang, PhD
“Molecular recording of tumor evolution in response to macrophage modulations”
Columbia University
Santosha A. Vardhana, MD, PhD
"Investigating and targeting T cell exhaustion in solid tumors"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ekaterina V. Vinogradova, PhD
"Investigating and targeting T cell exhaustion in solid tumors"
The Rockefeller University
Zeda Zhang, PhD
"Decode the senescent cell surface in vivo and develop cell therapies for senescence-related diseases"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
Rico C. Ardy, PhD
"An atlas of fibroblast cell states in health and disease through functional genomics"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
Catherine A. Freije, PhD
"Investigating the role of fitness and host pressure in shaping hepatitis B diversity"
The Rockefeller University
Tin Yi Chu, PhD
"Statistical modeling of cell-cell interactions in normal intestine, inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer using single cell and spatial transcriptomics"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center / The Rockefeller University
Gokhan Unlu, PhD
"Targeting cancer nutrient limitations using dietary interventions"
The Rockefeller University
Anita Gola, PhD
"A spatially patterned stem cell and immune cell barrier at the skin surface"
The Rockefeller University
Nicholas M. Adams, PhD
"Elucidating how pDC genome organization regulates IFN production in cancer"
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Siting Gan, PhD
"In situ single-cell dissection of the tumor-microenvironment interplay mediating brain metastasis"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Elli Papaemmanuil, PhD
"Leveraging multi-modal genome profiling approaches to study disease initiation, progression, and response to therapy in TP53 mutated myeloid neoplasms"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michael E. Pacold, MD, PhD
"Tracing molecular oxygen in pancreatic cancer"
New York University Langone Health
Kaixian Liu, PhD
"The studies of double-strand break proteins in germline genome transmission"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Karuna Ganesh, MD, PhD
"Leveraging patient-derived organoid models to define the molecular determinants of metastatic regeneration"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sophia C. Tintori, PhD
"Mechanisms of radiation tolerance in Caenorhabditis from Chernobyl"
New York University School of Medicine
José Reyes, PhD
"Dynamics and consequences of complex karyotype evolution in p53 driven acute myeloid leukemia"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Rabi Upadhyay, MD
"Determining the distal effects of gut microbiota on the lung tumor microenvironment, cancer progression, and checkpoint blockade efficacy"
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Andrew J. Dunbar, MD
"Interrogating functional contribution of JAK2V617F in the maintenance of myeloproliferative neoplasms"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Christopher A. Klebanoff, MD
"Clinical development of next-generation T cell receptor (TCR)-based adoptive immunotherapies for the treatment of patients with common epithelial malignancies"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Andrew M. Intlekofer, MD, PhD
"Metabolic coupling of the hypoxic niche to stemness"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Robert S. Banh, PhD
“Codon- and nutrient-specific regulation of mRNA translation in pancreatic cancer”
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
John R. Ferrarone, MD
"Seeking and evaluating novel therapeutic targets in human lung adenocarcinomas with loss-of-function mutations in LKB1"
Weill Cornell Medicine
Shruti Naik, PhD
"Immune-epidermal stem cell crosstalk in skin inflammation"
New York University School of Medicine
Chao Lu, PhD
"Chromatin dysregulation as driver of oncogenesis"
Columbia University
Amaia Lujambio, PhD
"Overcoming resistance to anti-PD1 immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma"
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Arnold S. Han, MD, PhD
"Precision T cell receptor-based cancer therapies"
Columbia University
Piro Lito, MD, PhD
"Modeling responses to targeted ERK signaling inhibition at the single-cell level"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Vinod P. Balachandran, MD
"Recombinant interleukin-33 immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Gira Bhabha, PhD
"High-resolution studies of dynein structure and mechanism"
New York University School of Medicine
Arvin C. Dar, PhD
"Targeting allosteric control in the Ras-MAPK pathway for cancer therapy"
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David Q. Matus, PhD
"Cell cycle regulation of cellular behaviors associated with cancer metastasis"
Stony Brook University
Benjamin L. Martin, PhD
"Cell cycle regulation of cellular behaviors associated with cancer metastasis"
Stony Brook University
Heather L. Yeo, MD
"Use of mobile applications to evaluate post surgical recovery in aging patients with GI cancer"
Weill Cornell Medicine
Christopher E. Barbieri, MD, PhD
"Subtype-specific modes of clinical and molecular progression in prostate cancer"
Weill Cornell Medicine
Piero D. Dalerba, MD
"Using 'single-cell genomics' to resolve the molecular identity of 'cancer stem cells,' and guide their pharmacological eradication"
Columbia University
Harihar Basnet, PhD
"Identifying determinants of latency in brain metastatic breast cancer cells"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jonathan R. Whicher, PhD
"Structure and mechanism of the voltage-gated potassium channel hEag1"
The Rockefeller University
William Razzell, PhD
"The role of tension in Hippo pathway signaling"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
June-Yong Lee, PhD
"Investigation of potential roles of serum amyloid A in peripheral Th17 cell pathogenicity"
New York University School of Medicine
Bryan C. King, PhD
"AMPK-induced catabolism of extracellular proteins: a novel survival mechanism for nutrient-deprived cancer cells"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Lacy J. Barton, PhD
"Mechanisms of directed cell migration in a complex in vivo environment"
New York University School of Medicine
Ly P. Vu, PhD
"Uncovering the role of RNA-binding protein Syncrip in acute myeloid leukemia (AML)"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Zsofia K. Stadler, MD
"Genomic assessment of de novo germline cancer susceptibility in pediatric malignancies"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD
"Understanding and targeting altered histone modifiers in the myeloid malignancies"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Carolyn C. Jackson, MD, MPH
"Genetic dissection of pediatric classic Kaposi sarcoma"
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Himisha Beltran, MD
"Utilizing genome sequencing to elucidate mechanisms of resistance in advanced prostate cancer"
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

North Carolina

Elizabeth R. Hughes, PhD
"Mechanisms of microbial modulation of cancer immunotherapy"
Duke University School of Medicine
Nicholas C. DeVito, MD
"Investigating the role of EMT-mediated dendritic cell tolerization in checkpoint inhibitor resistance"
Duke University
Anthony D. Sung, MD
"Personalized prebiotics to optimize microbiota metabolism and improve transplant outcomes"
Duke University
Lawrence A. David, PhD
"Personalized prebiotics to optimize microbiota metabolism and improve transplant outcomes"
Duke University

North Dakota

Ohio

Jonathan E. Shoag, MD
"Harnessing clinical data to identify new prostate cancer therapeutics"
Wayne O. Miles, PhD
"Maximizing pro-apoptotic protein levels"

Oklahoma

Oregon

Jeremy Copperman, PhD
"Whole-cell modeling for the prediction and control of micro-environmentally regulated proliferative and migratory variability"
Oregon Health & Science University

Pennsylvania

Rahul S. Bhansali, MD
"Investigating chromatin architectural dynamics mediated by LDB1 in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia"
University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin A. Nacev, MD, PhD
"Understanding and targeting chromatin reorganization in ATRX deficient sarcomas"
University of Pittsburgh
Abigail Overacre-Delgoffe, PhD
"Harnessing the immune response to cancer through the microbiota"
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Nicholas P. Lesner, PhD
"Hepatic urea cycle function in NASH-induced HCC progression"
University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Noetzel, PhD
"How do eukaryotic cells count cell cycles? Intrinsic regulation of quantized asexual replication cycles and commitment to sexual differentiation in the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum"
University of Pennsylvania
(Kathy) Fange Liu, PhD
"Y chromosome proteins in sex bias of cancers in non-reproductive organs"
University of Pennsylvania
Rebecca S. Moore, PhD
"Investigation of the role of peripheral secreted molecules on sleep and circadian rhythms"
University of Pennsylvania
Chengcheng Jin, PhD
"Investigating neuro-immune interaction in lung cancer"
University of Pennsylvania
Catherine Triandafillou, PhD
"Illuminating error correction strategies in early development"
University of Pennsylvania
Alexander C. Huang, MD
"Shared antigen and neoantigen-specific T cells in checkpoint blockade efficacy and toxicity"
University of Pennsylvania
Yvonne M. Mowery, MD, PhD
"Evaluating and targeting pathways of treatment resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma"
University of Pittsburgh
Dennis J. Hsu, MD
"Metabolic determinants of codon usage bias in colorectal cancer"
University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer M. Kalish, MD, PhD
"Epigenetic and genetic mechanisms of cancer in Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome"
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Tera C. Levin, PhD
"Master microbial manipulators: how hosts are shaped by bacterial interactions"
University of Pittsburgh
Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD
"Defining the role of epigenetic enhancer dysfunction in epithelial carcinogenesis"
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Andrew A. Bridges, PhD
"Bacterial cell fates: The role of quorum sensing in biofilm patterning"
Carnegie Mellon University
Kristopher R. Bosse, MD
"GPC2 as an oncogene and immunotherapeutic target in high-risk neuroblastoma"
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Sarah L. Price, PhD
"Targeting Clostridioides difficile biofilm dynamics to combat recurrent infections"
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Anand G. Patel, MD, PhD
"Targeting the developmental architecture of rhabdomyosarcoma"
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Katherine E. Gadek, PhD
"Defining endothelial progenitor cell pliancy in rhabdomyosarcoma" 
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Lillian M. Guenther, MD
"Investigation of CITED2 as a novel dependency in Ewing sarcoma"
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Texas

Pavan Bachireddy, MD
"Immune evasive circuits that define MRD progression in myelodysplastic syndrome"
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Xiuning Le, MD, PhD
"Structure- and lineage-based classification and targeting of resistance in EGFR-mutant NSCLC"
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sangeetha M. Reddy, MD
"Multi-modality approach to enhancing antigen presentation in breast cancers"
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Todd A. Aguilera, MD, PhD
"Immunologic responses to short course radiotherapy in rectal adenocarcinoma and the impact of CD40 agonist immunotherapy"
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
David G. McFadden, MD, PhD
"Identifying metabolic vulnerabilities in Hürthle cell carcinoma"
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Xiaochun Li, PhD
“Investigation of Hedgehog and Wnt signaling mechanisms”
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Lindsay B. Case, PhD
"Regulation of integrin clustering on supported lipid bilayers"
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Deepak Nijhawan, MD, PhD
"Using chemistry to identify new targets in lung cancer"
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Utah

Tyler Starr, PhD
"Protein evolution at the host-virus interface"
University of Utah
Gregory S. Ducker, PhD
"Targeting phosphatidylcholine metabolism in liver cancer using zebrafish"
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Kimberley J. Evason, MD, PhD
"Targeting phosphatidylcholine metabolism in liver cancer using zebrafish"
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Alesia N. McKeown, PhD
"Novel roles for retrogenes in host immunity"
University of Utah School of Medicine

Vermont

Vitor Mori, PhD
"EBUS-TBNI of cisplatin optimization in heterogeneous lung tumors"
University of Vermont

Virginia

Albert Tsai, PhD
"Single-molecule imaging of transcription factors binding dynamics in Drosophila embryos"
HHMI Janelia Research Campus

Washington

Carli Newman
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Wei (Will) Chen, PhD
"Decoding the transcription code: de novo protein design for precise gene regulation"
University of Washington
Nicholas C. Lammers, PhD
"A computational platform for predicting whole-embryo morphologies from single-cell transcriptomes"
University of Washington
Erik Van Dis, PhD
"Investigating innate immune activation in the autoimmune pancreas"
University of Washington
Yapeng Su, PhD
"Quantitative analysis to elucidate spatial-temporal heterogeneity of therapeutic T cell dysfunction mechanisms in the context of adoptive cell therapy against pancreatic cancer"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Siqi Li, PhD
"Deciphering clonal competition between oncogenic mutant and normal cells and its effect on cancer initiation"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ching-Ho Chang, PhD
"Genetic conflicts shape protamine evolution"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jean-Benoît Lalanne, PhD
"At-scale dissection of developmental enhancers with single-cell reporters"
University of Washington
Edie I. Crosse, PhD
"Precision therapeutics for hematologic malignancies with splicing factor mutations"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Tal Einav, PhD
"Quantifying a polyclonal immune repertoire's ability to bind influenza"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Christopher P. Lapointe, PhD
“Fundamental mechanisms that underlie human translation initiation and its dysregulation in cancer”
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jakob von Moltke, PhD
"Initiation of type 2 immune responses"
University of Washington
Ying Qi Shirleen Soh, PhD
"Mapping paths and mechanisms of virus-host adaptation"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Yi Yin, PhD
"Global analysis of DNA break repair by single-cell sequencing"
University of Washington
Alistair B. Russell, PhD
"Impact of heterogeneity on the cellular recognition of influenza infection"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Antoine Molaro, PhD
"Evolutionary and functional consequences of genetic conflicts between KRAB-Zinc-Fingers and endogenous retroviruses in primate genomes"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Brian H. Shirts, MD, PhD
"Participatory genetics for defining genotype-phenotype associations of rare cancer variants"
University of Washington
Marie Bleakley, MD, PhD
"Segregating the GVL effect from GVHD in humans"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Cameron J. Turtle, MD, PhD
"The impact of the colonic microbiota on reconstitution of CD161hi cells and clinical outcomes after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

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