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The Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue Lab
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Our lab investigates the fundamental evolutionary mechanisms underlying metastasis using pancreatic cancer as our model tumor type. Metastasis is the result of a series of biological hurdles subject to Darwinian selection including the birth of metastasis-enabled cells within a heterogeneous primary tumor microenvironment, intravasation of these cells into a functional vascular bed, survival in the circulation, extravasation from the vasculature, and establishment of an autonomous cell population within the newly encountered foreign microenvironment.

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Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD
David M. Rubenstein Center Chair for Pancreatic Cancer Research; Director, Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research
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- Physician-scientist Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue studies the genomics and cell biology of pancreatic and other solid tumors as it relates to subclonal evolution, tumor progression, and metastasis.
- MD, PhD, Boston University
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- BS, University of Massachusetts – Amherst



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- Team Science Award, American Association for Cancer Research (2012)
- Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (2009)
- AACR-Barletta Foundation Career Development Award in Translational Pancreatic Cancer Research (2005)
- Member, Alpha Omega Alpha (2002)
- American Society of Clinical Investigators (2015)
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- Elected to American Association of University Pathologists (Pluto Society)
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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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Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
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Bristol-Myers Squibb
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