Corina Amor Vegas

Lab Phone

646-888-3340

Email

amorvegc@sloankettering.edu

Mentor

Scott W. Lowe, PhD

Start Year

2017

Education

MD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fellowships

The NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (NCI F99/K00) (2020-2022)
Postgraduate Fellowship from “La Caixa” Banking Foundation, Spain (2018-2020)
Harold E. Varmus Graduate Student Fellowship (2017-2019)

Awards

2020 GSK Chairman’s Prize Award

Publications

Leibold J, Ruscetti M, Cao Z, Ho YJ, Baslan T, Zou M, Abida W, Feucht J, Han T, Barriga FM, Tsanov KM, Zamechek L, Kulick A, Amor C, Tian S, Rybczyk K, Salgado NR, Sánchez-Rivera FJ, Watson PA, de Stanchina E, Wilkinson JE, Dow LE, Abate-Shen C, Sawyers CL, Lowe SW; (2020) Somatic Tissue Engineering in Mouse Models Reveals an Actionable Role for WNT Pathway Alterations in Prostate Cancer Metastasis Cancer Discov.10 1038-1057.

Amor C, Feucht J, Leibold J, Ho YJ, Zhu C, Alonso-Curbelo D, Mansilla-Soto J, Boyer JA, Li X, Giavridis T, Kulick A, Houlihan S, Peerschke E, Friedman SL, Ponomarev V, Piersigilli A, Sadelain M, Lowe SW; (2020) Senolytic CAR T Cells Reverse Senescence-Associated Pathologies Nature 583. 127-132. [PMID: 3255459]

Corina Amor Vegas, MD

Graduate Student