Joshua Drago

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2020-Present
• Current Position: Assistant Attending Level 1
• Laboratory Mentor: Sarat Chandarlapaty
• Clinical Mentor: Shanu Modi
• Project Title: Development of rational biomarkers for next generation antibody-drug conjugates in breast cancer

Christopher Hackett

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2020-Present
• Current Position: Instructor
• Laboratory Mentor: Jedd Wolchok
• Clinical Mentor: William Tap
• Project Title: Immune-checkpoint CAR T cell therapy for melanoma and small cell lung cancer

Michael Kinnaman

• Department: Pediatrics
• Training Period: 2020-Present
• Current Position: Special Fellow
• Laboratory Mentor: Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue
• Clinical Mentor: Julia Glade Bender
• Project Title: Tracking the Origins and Drivers of Metastatic Expansion in Osteosarcoma

Minsi Zhang

• Department: Radiation Oncology
• Training Period: 2020-Present
• Current Position: Instructor
• Laboratory Mentor: Andrea Ventura
• Clinical Mentor: Nancy Lee
• Project Title: Role of miRNA activity in Tumor and Normal Tissue Response to Radiation

Ivan Kotchetkcov

• Department: Neurology
• Training Period: 2021-Present
• Current Position: Instructor
• Laboratory Mentor: Michel Sadelain
• Clinical Mentor: Ingo Mellinghoff
• Project Title: Developing a CAR T Cell Therapy for Glioblastoma by addressing Antigen Heterogeneity

Urvi Shah

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2021-Present
• Current Position: Assistant Attending Level 1
• Laboratory Mentor: Marcel Ven Den Brink
• Clinical Mentor: Alexander Lesokhin
• Project Title: Characterizing the effects of a pilot plant-based dietary intervention in overweight/obese patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and smoldering multiple myeloms

Marie Will

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2021-Present
• Current Position: Fellow
• Laboratory Mentor: Charles Sawyers
• Clinical Mentor: Sarat Chandarlapaty
• Project Title: Functional and biologic consequences of GATA3 mutations in breast cancer

Yonina Murciano-Goroff

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2022-Present
• Current Position: Instructor
• Laboratory Mentor: Piro Lito
• Clinical Mentor: Alexander Drilon/Bob Li
• Project Title: Combined next-generation RAS and AURKA inhibition for KRAS G12C mutant tumors

Salvador Alonso Martinez

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2022-Present
• Current Position: Fellow
• Laboratory Mentor: Lukas Dow
• Clinical Mentor: Leonard Saltz
• Project Title: Targeting regenerative reprogramming in colorectal cancer

Varun Narendra

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2022-Present
• Current Position: Fellow
• Laboratory Mentor: Scott Lowe
• Clinical Mentor: Eytan Stein
• Project Title: Interrogating and exploiting TP53 alterations in ckAML

Vinod Balachandran

• Department: Surgery
• Training Period: 2016-2019
• Current Position: Assistant Attending
• Laboratory Mentor: Steven Leach
• Clinical Mentor: Jedd Wolchok
• Project Title: Combining neoantigen vaccines with PD-1 blockade in pancreatic cancer

Paul Romesser

• Department: Radiation Oncology
• Training Period: 2016-2019
• Current Position: Assistant Attending Level 1
• Laboratory Mentor: Scott Lowe
• Clinical Mentor: Chris Crane
• Project Title: Preclinical functional genetic mouse model to study novel medical countermeasures to protect against radiation enteritis

Barbara (Gila) Spitzer

• Department: Pediatrics
• Training Period: 2016-2019
• Current Position: Assistant Attending Level 1
• Laboratory Mentor: Ross Levine
• Clinical Mentor: Eytan Stein
• Project Title: Characterizing transcriptional and epigenetic signatures induced by FLT3 activation to rationally design targeted therapies for FLT3/ITD AML

Simone Krebs

• Department: Radiology
• Training Period: 2016-2020
• Current Position: Assistant Attending
• Laboratory Mentor: Steven Larson
• Clinical Mentor: Heiko Schoder
• Project Title: Developing non-immunogenic, sensitive, and specific tracking strategies for monitoring clinical cell therapy trials

Anthony Daniyan

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2017-2020
• Current Position: Assistant Attending
• Laboratory Mentor: Renier Brentjens
• Clinical Mentor: Jae Park
• Project Title: The Development of a CD19 Targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell Secreting an Immune-Modulating Cytokine for the Treatment of Relapsed and Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Samuel Funt

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2017-Present
• Current Position: Assistant Attending
• Laboratory Mentor: Jedd Wolchok
• Clinical Mentor: Dean Bajorin
• Project Title: Establishing an immunocompetent, carcinogen-induced mouse model as a platform for immunotherapy development in bladder cancer

Michael Ortiz

• Department: Pediatrics
• Training Period: 2017-2020
• Current Position: Assistant Attending
• Laboratory Mentor: Alex Kentsis
• Clinical Mentor: Paul Meyers
• Project Title: Prohibitin is a prognostic marker of treatment failure and therapeutic target to block chemotherapy resistance in Wilms’ tumor

Jeremy Setton

• Department: Radiation Oncology
• Training Period: 2017-2020
• Current Position: Assistant Attending Level 1
• Laboratory Mentor: Simon Powell
• Clinical Mentor: Matthias Karajannis
• Project Title: The CXCR4-CXCLevel 12/beta catenin/Cyclin D1 axis - a potential therapeutic target in Neurofibromatosis type 1 associated Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors

Sameer Farouk Sait

• Department: Pediatrics
• Training Period: 2018-2021
• Current Position: Instructor
• Laboratory Mentor: Luis Parada
• Clinical Mentor: Nancy Lee
• Project Title: Combined inactivation of Rb & p27kip1 mediates a novel mechanism of antiandrogen resistance

Kamal Menghrajani

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2018-2021
• Current Position: Assistant Attending Level 1
• Laboratory Mentor: Ross Levine, Mike Berger
• Clinical Mentor: Martin Tallman
• Project Title: The Impact of TP53 Loss on the Classification and Prognosis of Myeloid Malignancies

Steven Maron

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2019-2022
• Current Position: Assistant Attending Level 1
• Laboratory Mentor: David Solit/Nikolaus Schultz
• Clinical Mentor: Yelena Janjigian
• Project Title: Pembrolizumab/Trastuzumab: overcoming intrapatient heterogeneity in esophagogastric cancer

Fresia Pareja

• Department: Pathology
• Training Period: 2019-2022
• Current Position: Assistant Attending
• Laboratory Mentor: Jorge Reis-Filho
• Clinical Mentor: Hannah Wen
• Project Title: Defining the oncogenic impact of genetic alterations in endosomal pH regulators and their implications in resistance to targeted therapies

Wungki Park

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2019-2022
• Current Position: Assistant Attending Level 1
• Laboratory Mentor: Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue
• Clinical Mentor: Eileen O’Reilly
• Project Title: Immunologic Synthetic Lethality in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) with Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD)

Eugene Pietzak

• Department: Surgery
• Training Period: 2019-2022
• Current Position: Assistant Attending
• Laboratory Mentor: David Solit
• Clinical Mentor: Dean Bajorin
• Project Title: Truncating ARID1A mutations as a therapeutic target in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

Jimmy Zhao

• Department: Medicine
• Training Period: 2020-2022
• Current Position: Baselga Scholar/AstraZeneca
• Laboratory Mentor: Charles Sawyer
• Clinical Mentor: Dana Rathkopf
• Project Title: Investigate the cell of origin and the molecular mechanisms of lineage plasticity in neuroendocrine prostate cancer