Past Shulamit Katzman Endowed Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Josef Leibold.
Mentor: Scott Lowe
Project: Dissecting mechanisms of immune surveillance and evasion during metastatic spread using non-germline mouse models of gastric cancer
Karuna Ganesh
Mentor: Joan Massagué
Project: Investigating and targeting L1CAM in metastatic cancer stem cells
Ekrem Er
Mentor: Joan Massagué
Project: The role of L1CAM-driven vascular co-option in metastasis
Past GMTEC’s Metastasis Scholars Fellows
2019
Yudan Chi
Mentor: Adrienne Boire
Project: Microenvironmental effects on cancer cells in Leptomeningeal Metastasis
2018
Deepti Mathur
Mentor: Joao Xavier
Project: The influence of the metabolic microenvironment on metastatic tropism: quantitative experiments and mathematical models.
Ting-Hsiang Huang
Mentor: Richard White
Project: Investigate the relationship between fatty acids and melanoma progression through epigenetic reprogramming
2017
Francisco Barriga
Mentor: Scott Lowe
Project: Dissecting the role of large genomic deletions in colorectal cancer metastasis.
Zhenghan Wang
Mentor: Joan Massagué
Project: Understanding the role of TGF- signaling in metastatic latency.
Pierre-Louis Loyher
Mentor: Frederic Geissmann
Project: Role of resident macrophages in lung metastasis development.
Alexandre Francou
Mentor: Kathryn Anderson
Project: Regulation and quantitative dynamic analysis of EMT in vivo.
Efstathios Stamatiades
Mentor: Ming Li
Project: Immunosurveillance of Early Disseminated Tumor Cells by Innate Lymphoid Cells and Innate-like T Cells.
2016
Tzu‐Pei Chang
Mentor: Kitai Kim
Project: Inhibition of tumorigenesis and metastasis by NEPN
Jing Hu
Mentor: Joan Massagué
Project: Dissecting the roles of STING signaling pathway in cancer metastasis
Contantinos Zambirinis
Mentor: William Jarnagin
Project: Development of novel imaging and laboratory biomarkers to monitor the liver pre‐metastatic niche and guide treatment
2015
Intissar Akalay
Mentor: Filippo Giancotti
Project: Targeting non‐canonical discoidin domain receptor signaling for metastasis therapy
Wytse Bruinsma
Mentor: John Petrini
Project: The tumor suppressive barrier in response to oncogenes: MRN‐complex dependent genome rearrangements to prevent tumorigenesis and metastasis
Ashley M. Laughney
Mentor: Joan Massagué
Project: Uncovering Transcriptional Vulnerabilities in Latent Metastasis
Kajan Ratnakumar
Mentor: Richard White
Project: Understanding the roles of pigmentation in melanoma metastasis
Francisco Sanchez Vega
Mentor: Nikolaus Schultz
Project: Comprehensive genomic characterization of the tissue‐specific characteristics of metastasis in the MSK‐IMPACT cohort
Yosef Shamay
Mentor: Glenn Heller
Project: Radiation-guided drug delivery to metastases via a novel abscopal‐like effect
2014
Ekrem Er
Mentor: Joan Massagué
Project: The role of L1CAM-driven vascular co-option in metastasis
Wenjing Su
Mentor: Filippo Giancotti
Project: Identification of pro‐metastatic genes involved in bone metastasis of prostate cancer
Lisa K. Sevenich
Mentor: Johanna Joyce
Project: Therapeutic targeting of tumor‐associated macrophages/microglia in breast‐to‐brain metastasis