Faculty

The Tansey lab focuses on solving frontier problems in cancer data science through the development of innovative statistical machine learning methods.

• PhD, University of Texas at Austin

The Taylor laboratory studies the influence of the nervous system on pediatric and young adult cancers.

• PhD, University of London, The Institute of Cancer Research

Craig Thompson studies molecular signaling pathways that regulate nutrient uptake and the role these pathways play in the regulation of cell growth and survival.

• MD, University of Pennsylvania

Cell biologist Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou studies cell cycle control of centrosome duplication and degeneration, as well as cilia assembly and disassembly.

• PhD, University of California, Davis

The Tulpule lab studies how cells compartmentalize critical cellular processes with a focus on biomolecular condensates in cancer.

• MD, Harvard Medical School
• PhD, Harvard University

The Vardhana Lab studies how nutrient availability, uptake and metabolism regulates host immune responses during cancer development and immunotherapy.

• PhD, New York University

Associate Attending Computer Scientist Harini Veeraraghavan's lab develops and translates new AI and machine learning tools diagnosing and personalizing cancer treatments through automated segmentation of normal tissues and tumors applied to radiation treatment automation, early predicting treatment response and toxicity prediction, and longitudinal tumor treatment response monitoring from medical images.

• PhD, University of Minnesota

Cancer biologist Andrea Ventura studies non-coding RNAs in cancer and development

• MD, Catholic University of Rome (Italy)
• PhD, European Institute of Oncology (Milan Italy), Open University (London, UK)
• Postdoctoral, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

The Vierbuchen laboratory directs the differentiation of mouse and human pluripotent stem cells to characterize fundamental mechanisms of neuronal cell fate specification and function.

• PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine

The laboratory investigates cellular lipid and energy metabolism, in particular the mechanisms and physiology of neutral lipid synthesis and storage in lipid droplets.

• PhD, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany