Chemical Biology Program

The Gabriela Chiosis Lab

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Gabriela Chiosis, PhD

The goal of my program is to investigate stressor maladaptation mechanisms such as they occur in several diseases. Our approach takes advantage of the way nature has evolved to control such stressors, and that is by a unique usage of the chaperome, referred here as the epichaperome. The epichaperome, which we discovered, is structurally, dynamically and functionally distinct from the housekeeping chaperome, and my lab has pioneered an approach to take advantage of such features. By using innovative methods, we develop small molecule chemical toolsets specifically targeted to the epichaperome; these act as “sensors” of the epichaperome, and in turn, of the chronic stressor-associated proteome-wide malfunctions. By the use of these unique toolsets we aim to understand, diagnose and treat cellular processes associated with chronic stressors. We address multiple mechanistic and biochemical questions less amenable to approaches that treat the chaperome as monolithic entity (i.e. the classical biochemical and genetic tools). We investigate in endogenous systems, both at the cellular and the organismal level, the inherent proteome changes and mechanisms that lead to disease, i.e. we can understand. By sensing disease states through the chemical toolsets, we go beyond investigation; we identify, measure and quantify, i.e. we can diagnose. By attacking the epichaperome specifically, we perturb the disease-causing proteome, and in turn revert or slow the disease phenotype, i.e. we can treat.

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Pictured: Gabriela Chiosis

Gabriela Chiosis, PhD

  • The Chiosis lab uses a unique chemical biology approach to understand, diagnose, and treat cellular processes associated with chronic molecular stress, with the ultimate goal of developing novel therapeutic options for use in the clinic.
  • PhD, Columbia University
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Members

Anna Rodina

Senior Research Scientist

Sahil Sharma
Sahil Sharma

Senior Research Scientist

Shujuan Wang

Senior Research Scientist

Chander Digwal

Research Associate

Sadik Bay

Research Scholar

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Chiranjeevi Pasala

Research Scholar

Tanaya Roychowdhury

Research Scholar

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Souparna Chakrabarty

Research Fellow

Palak Panchal

Research Technician

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Julia Ashmead

Associate Administrative Assistant

Lab Alumni
Erica DaGama Gomes

Research Fellow

Sarah Kishinevsky

Graduate Student

John Koren

Research Scholar

Stefan Ochiana

Research Scholar

Hardik Patel

Research Scholar

Smit Shah
Smit Shah

Research Technician

Mohammad Uddin

Research Technician

Tony Taldone

Senior Research Scientist

Tai Wang
Tai Wang

Bioinformatics Consultant

Pengrong Yan

Senior Research Scientist

Suhasini Joshi

Senior Research Scientist

Alexander Bolaender

Research Scholar

Maria del Carmen Inda Garcia, PhD
Maria del Carmen Inda Garcia

Research Scholar

Saidya Iqbal
Saidya Iqbal

Administrative Assistant

Chao Xu, PhD
Chao Xu

Research Fellow

Chenghua Yang

Research Scholar

Srinivasa Gandu
Srinivasa Gandu

Research Technician

Lampros Milanos, PhD
Lampros Milanos

Research Fellow

Fumiko Shimizu, PhD
Fumiko Shimizu
Mary Alpaugh

Research Associate

Liza Shrestha, PhD
Liza Shrestha

Research Fellow

Raul Alonso

Research Technician

Aftab Alam

Research Scholar

Justina Almadovar

Research Technician

Piyusha Pagare

Research Scholar - Medicinal Chemist

Anand Santha Seela

Research Scholar

Lab Affiliations

Achievements

AACR – Cancer Research and Prevention Career Development Award in Translational Lung Cancer Research, in Memory of Duffy Wall

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Translational Research Award

Frederick R. Adler Chair for Junior Faculty

Award for Drug Discovery Research for Frontotemporal Dementia

Top 5 percent cited author in Biology and Biochemistry 2010 (analysis by Thomson Reuters)

Translated from bench-to-bedside the Hsp90 inhibitor PU-H71 and the non-invasive companion diagnostic 124I-PU-H71 PET assay

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FEATURED RESEARCH - Chiosis lab research
A new strategy for Alzheimer’s disease treatment targets cell-wide protein malfunction

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Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.

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Gabriela Chiosis discloses the following relationships and financial interests:

  • Samus Therapeutics LLC
    Equity; Intellectual Property Rights

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