Ludwig Center Graduate Student Fellowships offer trainees the opportunity to pursue substantial independent research projects.
2024 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Vidit Bhandarkar (Spranger Laboratory): “Investigating the T cell-intrinsic role of Zfp36 in promoting CD8+ T cell dysfunction in non-small cell lung cancer”
Christina Cabana (Jacks Laboratory): “Leveraging ex vivo transformed AT2 organoids to investigate the role of the microenvironment in lung adenocarcinoma progression and evolution”
Fiona Chatterjee (Spranger Laboratory): “Studying the impact of tolerogenic gut DCs on the tumor immune microenvironment in high grade serrous ovarian cancer”
Samuel Gould (Sanchez-Rivera Laboratory): “High Throughput Phenotyping of Cancer-associated Variants”
Megan Hoffman (Wittrup Laboratory): “Investigating SHP2 BioPROTACs as Anti-Cancer therapies”
Alireza Khademi (Soto-Feliciano Laboratory): “Elucidating Novel Mechanisms of Tumor Suppression by the Chromatin Adaptor UTX”
Ivy Liu (Shalek Laboratory): “Investigation of a common basal cell state in epithelial-origin cancers”
Kristina Lopez (Knouse Laboratory): “Elucidating the hepatic stellate cell sensing mechanism for liver injury”
Caleb Perez (Birnbaum Laboratory): “Leveraging CAR libraries and single-cell omics to deeply characterize CAR signaling space”
Sean-Luc Shanahan (Jacks Laboratory): “Interrogating the roles of tumor-specific CD4+ T and B cells in a mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma”
Yichen Xiang (Koehler Laboratory): “Targeting the Pediatric Cancer Driver PAX3-FOXO1 Fusion Protein”
Daniel Zhu (Lauffenburger Laboratory): “Contextualizing malignant pancreatic cell states with spatial modeling of single-cell transcriptomics”
2023 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Lauren Duhamel (Wittrup Laboratory): “Engineering strategies to modulate CD45 activity within the tumor microenvironment”
Cameron Flower (White Laboratory): “Towards deep profiling of tumor cell-intrinsic adaptive signaling networks by large-scale targeted phosphoproteomics”
Viraat Goel (Hansen Laboratory): “Investigation of nested enhancer and promoter interactions using Region Capture Micro-C (RCMC)”
Carmen Martin (Bhatia Laboratory): “Engineering liquid biopsy contrast agents to increase the clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA”
Omar Mohd (Doyle Laboratory): “Spatially resolved and multiplexed MicroRNA quantification from tissue using nanoliter well arrays”
Tatiana Netterfeild (Yaffe Laboratory): "Elucidating How MAPK Signaling and AP-1-Mediated Gene Transcription Drive Cellular Senescence after Cancer Therapy"
Nolan Tucker (Horvitz Laboratory): "Analysis of the pro-apoptotic function of the BCL-2 homolog, ced-9"
2022 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Neil Dalvie (Love Laboratory): “Developing an alternative host for low-cost manufacturing of monoclonal antibodies”
Anisha Datta (Lauffenburger Laboratory): “Investigating the effect of anti-AXL treatment on cancer cell survival and recognition by macrophages”
Cameron Flower (White Laboratory): “Identifying novel treatment strategies in RTK-mutant lung cancer by characterizing adaptive signaling networks”
Ellen Kim (Birnbaum Laboratory): “Engineering lentiviruses for gene delivery to antigen-specific T cells”
Jin Yang (Hansen Laboratory): “Bottom-up dissection of 3D genome disorganization in cancer”
2021 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Yash Agarwal (Wittrup/Irvine Laboratories): “Enhancing local delivery of cancer immunotherapy with alum adjuvant”
Sachin Bhagchandani (Johnson/Irvine Laboratories): “Toward safe, systemic immunotherapies for treatment of metastatic disease: Developing dendritic cell-biased synthetic TLR7 bottlebrush prodrugs (TLR7-BPDs) with precise control over magnitude of immune stimulation”
Ishwar Kohale (White Laboratory): “Phosphoproteomic characterization of triple negative breast cancer to develop novel therapeutic strategies”
Mohammed Toure (Koehler Laboratory): “Selective degradation of cyclin-dependent Kinase 9 in metastatic cancer models”
2020 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Theresa Hwang (Keating Laboratory): “Proteomic screening to functionally differentiate and inhibit the Ena/VASP family”
Catherine Henry (Koehler Laboratory): “Targeting FOXA1 to modulate chromatin accessibility and transcriptional reprogramming in metastatic cancer”
2019 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Xin Gu (Sabatini Laboratory): “Identification and validation of SAMTOR as an S-adenosylmethionine sensor linking mTORC1 and one-carbon metabolism”
Cynthia Hajal (Kamm Laboratory): “Tumor cell extravasation in an in vitro blood-brain barrier microvascular network model”
Bashar Hamza (Manalis Laboratory): “Optofluidic platform for longitudinal and dynamic circulating tumor cell studies in mouse models of cancer”
Elaine Kuo (Lees Laboratory): “Role of BMI1 in colon tumorigenesis and metastasis”
2018 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Molly Anne Bird (Yaffe Laboratory): “The role of RNA-binding proteins in driving metastasis and their potential as therapeutic targets”
Jesse Kirkpatrick (Bhatia Laboratory): “Inhalable synthetic biomarkers for noninvasive diagnosis and monitoring of lymphangioleiomyomatosis”
Robert Wilson (Koehler Laboratory): “Chemical modulation of the oncogenic reprogramming factor LIN28B”
Connie Wu (Hammond Laboratory): “Periodic shRNA delivery systems for ovarian cancer”
Nemanja Marjanovic (Regev/Jacks Laboratory): “Longitudinal profiling of tumor evolution in NSCLC using single cell RNAseq approaches”
2017 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Vibhuti Agrawal (White Laboratory): “ERK-mediated stabilization of ZEB1 is essential for EMT”
Shelby Doyle (Koehler Laboratory): “Reprogramming the androgen receptor cistrome in prostate cancer”
Jaideep Dudani (Bhatia Laboratory): “Noninvasive prediction of aggressive prostate cancer using protease nanosensors”
Jess Hebert (Hynes Laboratory): “Determining the ECM composition of breast cancer metastatic niches”
Alba Luengo (Vander Heiden Laboratory): “Targeting metabolism of breast cancer brain metastasis”
2016 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Sumaiya Nazeen (Berger Laboratory): “Surmounting the challenges in cancer genomics through integrative computational approaches”
Andrew Warren (Bhatia Laboratory): “Improved disease diagnostics using engineered synthetic urinary biomarkers”
Eric Zhu (Wittrup Laboratory): “Induction of synergistic anti-cancer immune responses through combination immunotherapy”
2015 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Aikaterina Mantzavinou (Cima Laboratory): “A sustained-release device to treat peritoneal metastasis of ovarian cancer with combination therapy”
Ran Li (Kamm Laboratory): “In vitro study of macrophage-assisted cancer cell migration under static and interstitial flow conditions”
Alice Tzeng (Wittrup Laboratory): “Improving methods for cytokine immunotherapy of cancer”
Leah Schmidt (Jacks Laboratory): “Manipulating the interactions between natural killer cells and lung cancer: Characterizing innate roles in controlling tumor progression and uncovering therapeutic opportunities”
2014 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Bigyan Bista (Hynes Laboratory): “Investigating the roles of adhesion-GPCRs in breast cancer progression and metastasis”
Chandrani Mondal (Gertler Laboratory): “Mena-driven effects on cell morphology, motility and actin dynamics are regulated by the alternatively-included 11a sequence”
2013 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Carman Man Chung Li (Jacks Laboratory): “Dissecting the role or Tks5 in invadopodia-mediated lung adenocarcinoma metastasis”
Nathan Reticker Flynn (Bhatia Laboratory): “Engineering approaches of querying cell-ECM interactions in cancer metastasis”
2012 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Justin Lo (Bhatia Laboratory): “Development of a tumor-penetrating miRNA delivery platform for treatment of primary and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer”
Jeffery Schindler (Hynes Laboratory): “The role of FERM domain proteins in tumorigenesis and metastasis”
2011 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Luke Gilbert (Hemann Laboratory): “DNA damage mediated induction of a chemoresistant niche”
Wu Albert Cheng (Burge Laboratory): “Transcriptomic regulation in epithelial-mesenchymal transition and breast cancer metastasis: Alternative splicing, regulatory network and long non-coding RNAs”
2010 Ludwig Graduate Fellows
Timothy Peterson (Sabatini Laboratory): “Growth control by the mTOR signaling pathway”
Jason Doles (Hemann Laboratory): “Evaluation of Rev3-dependent cisplatin sensitivity using novel tumor transplantation and sequencing-based methodologies”