Scott J. Callahan, PhD

Graduate Student - currently: Senior Vice President, Director of Medical Strategy at Havas Health & You, New York, NY
Pictured: Scott Callahan
Email
[email protected]
Dissertation
Modeling the origins of melanoma using zebrafish and human embryonic stem cells (2019)
Mentor
Lorenz Studer, MD
Start Year
2012
End Year
2019
Education
Princeton University

My curiosity about how life works first sparked my interest in science, and that intellectual curiosity motivated me to get my PhD. My research is on the importance of cell-cell interactions in determining cell fate. I chose to do graduate work at Gerstner Sloan Kettering because of the personalized attention, effective yet light course load, amazing faculty, and terrific funding — and because it is in the best city in the world. You will be in the program for a long time, so pick a place that you feel comfortable, appreciated, and happy. Outside of school, for me that means runs in Central Park, dinners at fun new restaurants, soccer, squash, and exploring new neighborhoods.

Fellowships

Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NIH F31) (2015-2019)

Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation Research Scholar Award (2014-2015)

Robert B. Catell Fellowship (2013-2014)

Publications

Baggiolini A, Callahan SJ, Montal E, Weiss JM, Trieu T, Tagore MM, Tischfield SE, Walsh RM, Suresh S, Fan Y, Campbell NR, Perlee SC, Saurat N, Hunter MV, Simon-Vermot T, Huang TH, Ma Y, Hollmann T, Tickoo SK, Taylor BS, Khurana E, Koche RP, Studer L, White RM. (2021) Developmental chromatin programs determine oncogenic competence in melanoma. Science.

Callahan SJ, Tepan S, Zhang YM, Lindsay H, Burger A, Campbell NR, Kim IS, Hollmann TJ, Studer L, Mosimann C, White RM. (2018) Cancer modeling by Transgene Electroporation in Adult Zebrafish (TEAZ). Dis Model Mech. pii: dmm.034561 [Epub ahead of print]

Zhang YM, Zimmer MA, Guardia T, Callahan SJ, Mondal C, Di Martino J, Takagi T, Fennell M, Garippa R, Campbell NR, Bravo-Cordero JJ, White RM. (2018) Distant Insulin Signaling Regulates Vertebrate Pigmentation through the Sheddase Bace2. Dev Cell. pii: S1534-5807(18)30357-5 [Epub ahead of print]

Callahan SJ, Mica Y, Studer L. (2016) Feeder-free Derivation of Melanocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. J Vis Exp.

Callahan SJ, Morgan RD, Jain R, Townson SA, Wilson GG, Roberts RJ, Aggarwal AK. (2011) Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the type IIL restriction enzyme MmeI in complex with DNA. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun., 67, 1262-5. PMCID: PMC3212378.

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