2023
June
Ajinkya Patil successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Patil!
Alexander Wang Ying joins the Kadoch Lab as a Computational Biologist. Welcome, Alex!
April
Kristin Qian successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Qian!
February
Dr. Sangwoo Park, Postdoctoral Fellow, joins our lab!
Whitney Lieberman, Chemical Biology Graduate Student, joins our lab!
2022
October
Dr. Ngai Ting Chan, Postdoctoral Fellow, joins our lab!
Dr. Brian Josephson, Postdoctoral Fellow, joins our lab!
January
Dr. Stuart (Aidan) Quin, Postdoctoral Fellow, joins our lab!
2021
September
Dr. Cigall Kadoch has been named an HHMI Investigator!
August
Kevin So, BBS Graduate Student, joins our lab!
July
Kasey Cervantes joins our lab as a Computational Biologist, following his graduation from Emory University!
Dana Neel, M.D., Ph.D., Resident in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital begins a rotation in our lab! Welcome, Dana!
Roodolph St. Pierre successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations, Dr. St. Pierre!
June
Hayley Zullow, MSTP student, successfully defended her thesis and will now complete the last two years of MD training! Congratulations, Dr. Zullow!
Dawn Comstock, MD/PhD Student (Immunology), defended her thesis and will now complete the last two years of MD training! Congratulations, Dr. Comstock!
May
Kaylyn Williamson, BBS graduate student, successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Williamson!
Jose Del Rio Pantoja, graduate student in Chemical Biology, was awarded the NIH NRSA F31 Fellowship to support his work! Congratulations, Jose!
April
Jordan Otto Jagielski, Chemical Biology graduate student, successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Jagielski!
March
Dawn Comstock, MD/PhD Student (Immunology), is awarded the AY222 MD-PhD DFCI Fellowship Award from the Harvard MIT MD-PhD Leadership Council! This award will support her remaining MD-PhD training at Harvard Medical School! Congratulations, Dawn!
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Siddhant Jain is awarded the AACR Basic Cancer Research Fellowship to support his work in the lab! Congratulations, Sid!
Kristian Teichert is awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations!
2020
November
Dr. Claudia Gentile has been awarded the Helen Gurley Brown Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her studies in the lab! Congratulations, Claudia!
Dr. Siddhant Jain joins our lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow!
September
Dr. Shany Koren joins our lab, jointly with Dr. Tom Muir’s lab at Princeton! She has also been awarded the HFSP Fellowship to support her studies!
August
Olubusayo Bolonduro, Martin Filipovski, and Evan Winter, our three star Research Associates, all are accepted to and will attend Ph.D. programs at U Chicago, Harvard Medical School, and Dartmouth, respectively! Congratulations, guys—we will miss you!
July
Ajinkya Patil, Virology Program graduate student, joins our lab!
June
Kimberlee Hixon, BBS Graduate Student, joins our lab!
Kristian Teichert, Chemical Biology Graduate Student, joins our lab!
Dr. Jessica St. Laurent, a clinical fellow in the Obstetrics/Gynecology Department, joins our lab!
Daniel Same Guerra joins the lab as a Research Associate, having just graduated from Princeton University!
Aaron Corin joins the lab as a Research Associate, having just graduated from Brandeis University!
May
Tobias Wauer, Ph.D., joins our lab as a postdoctoral fellow! Dr. Wauer is supported by the Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship (UK)! Welcome, Tobi!
Alfredo Valencia, Chemical Biology graduate student, successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis! Congrats, Freddy! Freddy will be moving to Stanford to begin his postdoctoral studies in neurobiology.
April
Kristin Qian, BBS graduate student, is awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations!
2019
May
Kristin Qian, BBS graduate student, joins our lab!
Congratulations to Nina Kupersertkul, a research associate in our lab, who has been accepted to and will join the MD-PhD Program at the University of Pennsylvania!
Veronika Ostapcuk, a postdoctoral fellow in our lab, is awarded the EMBO Fellowship to support her work! Congratulations!
Dawn Comstock, MD/PhD student (Immunology), is awarded the NIH F30 Fellowship award to support her PhD and MD training here at Harvard Medical School! Congratulations, Dawn!
2018
November
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Veronika Ostapcuk has decided to join our lab for her postdoctoral fellowship! She comes to us from Marc Buhler's lab at the FMI in Basel and after publishing a beautiful paper in Nature!
September
Congratulations to Dr. Seth Cassel for defending his Ph.D. thesis! Seth is returning to the hospital to complete the final two years of the MD part of his MD/PhD.
Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Michel for defending her Ph.D. thesis! Brittany has accepted a position as a Curriculum Fellow in the Leder Program for Human Biology at HMS.
Welcome to new research technicians Martin Filipovski, Nina Kuprasertkul, and Busayo Bulonduro!
August
Congratulations to Gabe, John, and colleagues on a beautiful story in Molecular Cell! Here, we identify that the ERG transcription factor binds BAF complexes and retargets them genome-wide to drive oncogenic gene expression in prostate cancer.
Nazar Mashtalir was awarded the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award to support his remaining time in the lab and his upcoming transition to independence!
June
Akshay Sankar joins our lab as an Associate Computational Biologist, having just graduated from UNC Chapel Hill!
May
Congratulations to Matt, John, and colleagues on their publication in Cancer Cell where they find the SS18-SSX fusion oncoprotein hijacks the genome-wide occupancy of SWI/SNF (BAF) complexes to drive synovial sarcoma. Their work was also featured on the cover of the June issue!
Congratulations to Dr. Josh Pan and colleagues on his new publication in Cell Systems. Working with collaborators at the Broad Institute, his team investigated how patterns of genetic co-dependency across cancer cell lines can reveal biochemical relationships within protein complexes. Their work will be highlighted on the cover!
Keeping the Kadoch lab streak alive, Matt brought home a $1000 top presenter award at the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Poster Competition!
Veronika Ostapcuk, a new postdoctoral fellow in the lab, is awarded the Helen Gurley Brown postdoctoral fellowship award! Congratulations, Veronika!
Congratulations to John Pulice, Associate Computational Biologist in our lab, for being accepted in to and joining the BBS Ph.D. Program at Harvard Medical School!
April
Dr. Steven Poynter successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! Dr. Poynter is joining Choate’s Intellectual Property Group as a Staff Scientist. Congrats Steven!
Congratulations to Dr. Josh Pan on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis! Dr. Pan will be joining Dr. William Hahn’s group as a Post-doctoral Fellow.
March
Congratulations to Kaylyn who was awarded the Landry Cancer Biology Consortium Fellowship!
January
Congratulations to Matt on his review in the Journal of Pathology exploring SWI/SNF and polycomb complex perturbations in sarcomas!
Congrats to Kaylyn who received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
2017
November
Congratulations to Jordan on the Cancer Cell preview titled: “A Two-Faced mSWI/SNF Subunit: Dual Roles for ARID1A in Tumor Suppression and Oncogenicity in the Liver”. Nice work, Jordan!
October
We are excited to welcome Clayton Collings, Ph.D. to the Kadoch lab as a bioinformatics post-doctoral fellow.
September
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Nakayama, John Pulice, Alfredo Valencia, and colleagues on their publication in Nature Genetics examining the biochemical and functional roles of SMARCB1 loss in the development of malignant rhabdoid tumor!
July
Alfredo M. Valencia was awarded the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study.
June
Congratulations to Josh for being a top presenter at the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Poster Competition at HMS, winning a prize of $1000.
May
Matt received a Scholar-In-Training award and presented his work at the AACR Special Conference on Advances in Sarcomas: From Basic Science to Clinical Translation in Philadelphia, PA.
April
Josh was awarded the 2017 AACR Bristol-Myers Squibb Scholar-In-Training Award.
Matthew J. McBride was awarded the 2017 Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Fellowship.
March
Alfredo M. Valencia was awarded the Ford Foundation Fellowship.
February
Brittany C. Michel was awarded the Albert J. Ryan Fellowship granted by the Division of Medical Sciences at Harvard Medical School.
Alfredo M. Valencia was offered the NIH funded Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA) F31.
2016
June
Jordan E. Otto was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
April
Roodolph St. Pierre was awarded the Ford Foundation Fellowship.
2015
March
Josh Pan was awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Gabriel Sandoval was awarded Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program Award.
January
Dr. Rachel Kubiak was awarded American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award.