News & Events

2015.07.01 – Congrats to postdoc Nadya Dimitrova on her independent position at Yale University. The Dimitrova lab will open its doors in September 2015 and is looking for new members. more >>

2015.07.01 – Congrats to postdoc Thales Papagiannakopoulos on his independent position at New York University. The Papagiannakopoulos lab will open its doors in October 2015 and is looking for new members. more >>

2015.06.08 – Tyler Jacks and the Jacks Lab mentioned on the Boston Globe, in a piece about precision medicine. Read about it! more >>

2015.06.05 – Congratulations to our newest alumni Carman Li for her Ph.D. graduation!! The Jacks lab is super proud of Carman!

2015.05.20 – Congratulations to Tyler Jacks!! He is the 2015 recipient of the prestigious Killian Award, the highest honor MIT grants to members of its faculty. Our one and only fierce leader is recognized for his leadership of MIT’s cancer research community, and his influence on the field of cancer research. more >>

2015.05.01 – Congratulations to Tyler Jacks for being the 2015 recipient of the Sergio Lombroso Award in Cancer Research, given once in two years to an internationally distinguished scientist, medical researcher, or physician, who has made highly significant contributions to the understanding of the causes and mechanisms of cancer, or to its diagnostics and therapy.

Congratulations to Carman Li for her outstanding Ph.D. thesis defense!! Congratulation Dr. Li!!!! (04.23.2015)

Congratulations to the members of the Jacks, Langer and Anderson labs, for the publication of their work on in vivo delivery of siRNA to the lung vasculature. more >>

Check out this issue in the Boston Globe on the new CRISPR/Cas9 technology developed in the Jacks lab, among others. “Tool to edit DNA revolutionizing research in Boston area“.

Congrats to UROP Elliot Akama-Garren for being among the 32 Americans selected for the pretigious Rhodes Scholars (annoucement). more >>