The Adrienne Boire Lab

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Inside My Lab: Adrienne Boire

My laboratory focuses on metastasis to the central nervous system (CNS), both leptomeningeal and parenchymal metastases. We employ multiple complementary approaches to identify and target cancer cell adaptations to the challenging microenvironmental constraints posed by the CNS.

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Adrienne A. Boire, MD, PhD

Adrienne A. Boire, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research Focus

Physician-scientist Adrienne Boire studies metastasis to the central nervous system.

Education

  • PhD, Tufts University, Boston, MA
  • MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Lab Members

Majdi Alghader
Majdi Alghader

Senior Research Technician

Giscard Barbier
Giscard Barbier

Administrative Assistant

Yudan Chi, PhD
Yudan Chi

Research Scholar

Camille Derderian
Camille Derderian

Laboratory Technician

Danielle Isakov
Danielle Isakov

Research Technician

Anestashia Melford
Anestashia Melford

Administrative Assistant

Jan Remsik, PharmD, PhD
Jan Remsik

Research Fellow

Fadi Saadeh
Fadi Saadeh

Research Fellow

Ugur Sener
Ugur Sener

Clinical Fellow

Xinran Tong
Xinran Tong

Weill Cornell PhD student

Publications
  • Boire A, Zou Y, Shieh J, Macalino D, Pentsova E and J Massagué. 2017 Complement Component 3 Adapts the Cerebrospinal Fluid for Leptomeningeal Metastasis. Cell 168(6):1101-1113.
  • Chen Q, Boire A**, Jin X, Valiente M, Er EE, Lopez-Soto A, Patwa R, Shah H, Xu K, Cross JR and J Massagué. 2016 Carcinoma-astrocyte gap junctions promote brain metastasis by cGAMP transfer. Nature 533(7604):493-8. **Co-first author
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Selected Achievements
  • Vienna Medical Academy Award (2017)
  • Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award (2017)
  • Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award (2012)
  • Pew Biomedical Scholar (2018)
  • Pershing Square Sohn Prize (2019)

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