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Congrats to postdoc Chengcheng Jin for being awarded an Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship!

Our fierce leader, the one and only Tyler Jacks, on TEDx Cambridge, sharing his “Life Lessons from 34 years of Fighting Cancer “. How inspiring and awesome is this? Check it out! more >>

Congratulations to Tyler (left), graduate student Francisco Sanchez-Rivera (middle) and postdoc Thales Papagiannakopoulos (right) , for their paper entitled “Rapid modeling of cooperating genetic events in cancer through somatic genome editing“, featuring the novel CRISPR/Cas9-based technology to quickly investigate the function of candidate-genes in the well-established autochthonous mouse model of cancer. Nature Advance Online Publication on Oct. 22 and also at the MIT webpage! more >>

Congrats to postdoc Nik Joshi for being awarded a Lung Cancer Research Foundation grant! more >>

Congrats to postdoc Tuomas Tammela for being awarded a Lung Cancer Research Foundation grant! more >>

Congrats to postdoc Mandar Muzumdar for being awarded an KL2/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training (CMeRIT) award. more >>

Congrats to postdoc David McFadden on his independent position at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and on being awarded the “The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)” grant (annoucement). The McFadden lab will open its doors in January 2015 and is looking for new members.

TEDxCambridge has announced its fall 2014 speaker lineup, which includes our very own Tyler Jacks. The event will be held in venues throughout Kendall Square on Friday, Sept. 12. more >>

Congrats to postdoc Tuomas Tammela for being awarded an NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99).more >>

Congrats to postdoc Wen Xue on his independent position at University of Massachusetts School of Medicine! The Xue lab will open its doors in September 2014 and is looking for new members. more >>