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 >>
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 >>
