Ludwig Center Postdoctoral Fellowships provide full salary support that allows trainees to focus on independent investigations.
2025 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Giuliano de Carluccio (Collins Laboratory): “Programming targeted RNA self-amplification for cancer immunotherapy”
Susanna Elledge (Bhatia Laboratory): “Non-invasive detection of early ovarian cancer lesions with ultrasound imaging”
Yetis Gutelkin (Vander Heiden Laboratory): “Organismal and physiological impacts of pancreatic tumor-associated exocrine insufficiency”
Taylor Heim (Spranger Laboratory): “Repurposing flu specific T cells for anti-tumor immunity in the lung”
Hanna Hong (Jacks Laboratory): “Perturbing Neoantigen Complexity in Pancreatic Cancer”
Amy Lee (Langer/Jaklenec Laboratory): “Developing new cryopreservation strategies and formulations for CAR T-cell applications”
Burak Yildiz (Yilmaz Laboratory): “Role of alcohol exposure on intestinal stemness and tumorigenicity”
Jingwei Zhang (Weinberg Laboratory): “Awakening of disseminated dormant cancer cells lodged in the lungs”
2024 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Jennifer Chu (Burge Laboratory): “Uncovering the role of stress granules on gene expression and chemoresistance”
Giulio Fittolani (Pentelute Laboratory): “Development of small-molecule inhibitors targeting ERG in prostate cancer”
Mouhita Humayun (Kamm Laboratory): “Role of cytoskeletal contractility, membrane protrusions, and shear stress on intravascular survival of tumor cells during metastasis”
Jibin Sadasivan (Case Laboratory): “Investigating the impact of stress on focal adhesion dynamics and cell migration”
Khanh Tran (Langer/Jaklenec Laboratory): “Microneedles deliver STING-lipid nanoparticles to boost CAR-T cell therapy against glioblastoma”
Shih-Ting (Christine) Wang (Bhatia Laboratory): “Engineering Orthogonal Breath Biomarkers for Multiplexed Cancer Diagnostics”
Yuyan Wang (Johnson Laboratory): “Targeted delivery of immunomodulators for glioblastoma therapy via peptide-bottlebrush polymer prodrug conjugates”
2023 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Ryuhjin Ahn (White Laboratory): “Deciphering cell-type-specific signaling by mass spectrometry-based proteomics”
Elena Cambria (Kamm Laboratory): “Deciphering the role of tumor cell mechanical memory in metastasis”
Chuyi Chen (Manalis Laboratory): “Creating a stable cross-kingdom colonic interface to study obligated anaerobes in colorectal cancer”
Keith Eidell (Hemann Laboratory): “Cytoskeletal-Mediated Resistance to CAR-T cell Treatment”
Saleh Khawaled (Yilmaz Laboratory): “Impacts of aging on intestinal cancer initiation and progression”
Jan-Georg Rosenboom (Langer Laboratory): “An intratumoral hydrogel platform that enables image-guided controlled delivery of immunotherapy drugs”
Tahoura Samad (Bhatia Laboratory): “Engineering microbially-inspired nano-antidotes to neutralize antibody-drug conjugate toxicity”
Maria Ullo (Case Laboratory): “Dissecting the Interplay between epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) spatiotemporal organization and PI3K transduction”
2022 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Ryuhjin Ahn (White Laboratory): “Defining the role of Siglec receptors in glioblastoma”
Charles Couturier (Shalek Laboratory): “Understanding mechanisms of plasticity and state determination in glioblastoma”
Whitney Henry (Weinberg Laboratory): “Functional characterization of ether lipids in cancer progression”
Brendan Horton (Spranger Laboratory): “Uncovering the determinants of CD8+ T cell responsiveness to cancer immunotherapy”
Sasan Jalili (Irvine & Hammond Laboratories): “Sampling tissue-resident cancer vaccine responses using noninvasive microneedles”
Nicholas Lamson (Hammond Laboratory): “Chemotherapeutic delivery across the blood brain barrier and to glioma cells using nanoparticles electrostatically conjugated with dual targeting peptides”
Edward Miller (Pentelute Laboratory): “Development of next-generation platinum agents against glioblastoma”
Morgan Stilgenbauer (Koehler Laboratory): “Chemical probe discovery for ligases that govern MYC post-translational stability”
Meghan Torrence (Jacks Laboratory): “Defining the role of tertiary lymphoid structures in pancreatic cancer”
Parisa Yousefpour (Irvine Laboratory): “Self-replicating RNAs for cancer immunotherapy”
2021 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Coralie Blacklund (Irvine Laboratory): “Unexpected mechanisms of cell penetrating peptides enhance peptide neoantigen cancer vaccine”
Jung-Kuei Chen (Yaffe Laboratory): “Improving the response of metastatic cancer to 5-fluorouracil-based therapies”
Whitney Henry (Weinberg Laboratory): “Functional characterization of ether lipids in cancer progression”
Josh Hinckley (Love Laboratory): “Deciphering lymphocyte transcriptome responses in multidimensional cell culture systems to cancer extracellular vesicles using high-resolution single-cell RNA sequencing”
Vicky Jun (Raines Laboratory): “Pills of PTEN: Traceless delivery of a tumor suppressor into the cytosol”
Bin Liu (Johnson Laboratory): “Dually targeted co-delivery of vaccines and adjuvants thorough brush polymers for cancer immunotherapy”
Edward Tan (Bhatia Laboratory): “Engineering conditional fusogenic liposomes for malignant cancer”
Lauren Zasadil (Amon Laboratory): “Immune clearance of aneuploid cells in vivo”
2020 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Megan Burger (Jacks Laboratory): “Elucidating the role of the interferon gamma signaling in lung cancer progression and metastasis”
Jackson Halpin (Keating Laboratory): “Investigation of the design, structure and mechanism of Mena protein interaction inhibitors”
Arthur Lambert (Weinberg Laboratory): “Transcriptional control of cancer stem cells and metastasis by p63/p73”
Pedro Pozo (Lees Laboratory): “Determining the mechanisms of resistance to PRMT5i in tumors”
Xueyang Yu (Yaffe Laboratory): “Unraveling the role of MK2 in progression and metastasis of epithelial high-grade serous ovarian cancer”
2019 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Jonathan Braverman (Yilmaz Laboratory): “Examining the role of ammonia metabolism in stem cells and metastatic colon cancer”
Brice Curtin (Koehler Laboratory): “Targeting Myc-dependent human cancers through development of next generation small molecule Max homodimer stabilizers”
Banu Eskiocak (Jacks Laboratory): “Delineating the role of natural killer cells during lung cancer progression and metastasis”
Sonia Iyer (Weinberg Laboratory): “Inherent and dynamic changes in the tumor microenvironment of high-grade serous ovarian genetic subtypes”
Xueguang Lu (Langer Laboratory): “Single injection drug delivery system for cancer therapy”
Enrico Moiso (Garg Laboratory): “Identification of rare metastatic cell states in cholangiocarcinoma and other tumors”
Alina Starchenko (Lauffenburger Laboratory): “Construction and validation of a single cell RNAseq-based metastasis fingerprint to study immune cell contributions to invasion in colorectal cancer”
Zhengpeng Wan (Kamm Laboratory): “Development of long-term physiologic metastasis models with blood and lymphatic vessels”
2018 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Genevieve Abbruzzese (Hynes Laboratory): “Regulation of growth factors by the extracellular matrix in cancer metastasis”
Banu Eskiocak (Jacks Laboratory): “Deciphering the tumor-natural killer cell interactions during development and metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma”
Liangliang Hao (Bhatia Laboratory): “Protease-activated detection and imaging of tumor progression and metastasis”
Brendan Horton (Spranger Laboratory): “Interrogating tissue-specific immune responses against metastatic pancreatic cancer”
Augusto Tentori (Doyle Laboratory): “Quantitative, multiplex microRNA heterogeneity profiling in tumor sections using microwell arrays”
Elen Torres Mejia (Gertler Laboratory): “The role of Mena in local mRNA translation in breast cancer metastasis”
Marianna Trakala (Amon Laboratory): “Relevance of the aneuploid microenvironment in cancer progression and metastasis”
Nicholas Truex (Pentelute Laboratory): “Delivering cancer vaccines with a protective antigen delivery system”
Bert van de Kooij (Yaffe Laboratory): “Delineating the function of mitotic serine/threonine kinases in adhesion site signaling and cell migration”
Jacomina Zweemer (Lauffenburger Laboratory): “Is apoptosis-induced migration via the AXL-receptor leading to in vivo metastasis?”
2017 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Xiaofeng Su (Amon Laboratory): “Molecular basis of karyotype evolution in Ewing sarcoma”
Banu Eskiocak (Jacks Laboratory): “Systematic identification of NK cell-mediated immunosurveillance during development and metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma”
Nicholas Struntz (Koehler Laboratory): “Attenuating Myc-driven transcriptional programs in metastasis using small molecules”
Maria Mihaylova (Sabatini Laboratory): “Understanding how impaired metabolism of aged intestinal stem cells may contribute to tumor formation”
Dig Bijay Mahat (Sharp Laboratory): “Understanding the mechanism of transcription read-through in cancer”
Naniye Cetinbas (Yilmaz Laboratory): “Dissecting the role of the urea cycle in intestinal stem cell and cancer”
2016 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Jason Cantor (Sabatini Laboratory): “Systematic identification and evaluation of amino acid dependencies in blood cancers”
Chia-Wei Cheng (Yilmaz Laboratory): “Impact of aging on intestinal stem cell metabolism and tumorigenesis”
Pau Creixell (Yaffe Laboratory): “Comprehensive characterization of mutant subclones driving metastasis and resistance to therapy at amino-acid level resolution”
Anushka Dongre (Weinberg Laboratory): “Understanding the contribution of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) to immunosuppression in breast carcinomas”
Silvia Fenoglio (Hemann Laboratory): “Functional genomic screen to identify in vivo modulators of the metastatic process in a transplantable model of pancreatic cancer”
Madeleine Oudin (Gertler Laboratory): “Investigating the mechanisms and contribution of extracellular matrix haptotaxis vs. growth factor chemotaxis to local invasion and metastatic colonization”
Steffen Rickelt (Hynes Laboratory): “Development of diagnostic and prognostic extracellular matrix signatures for human colon carcinomas”
Nik Joshi (Jacks Laboratory): “Investigation of the mechanisms of the anti-tumor response following therapeutic T cell depletion in a model of lung adenocarcinoma”
2015 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Jessica Ingram (Ploegh Laboratory): “Visualizing the anti-tumor immune response and tumor (micro) environment using single domain antibodies”
Vincent Guen (Lees Laboratory): “To establish the role of ciliogenesis in maintaining stemness in normal and cancer epithelial cells”
Miyeko Mana (Yilmaz Laboratory): “Mechanistic control in the mammalian stem cell niche during tumorigenesis”
Jacomina Zweemer (Lauffenburger Laboratory): “Apoptosis and AXL-mediated adaptive resistance mechanisms: Drivers of chemotherapy-induced metastasis?”
Yuxiong Feng (Gupta Laboratory): “Cell state plasticity and stress response program cooperate to drive metastasis”
Pau Creixell (Yaffe Laboratory): “Deploying deep mutational scanning by CRISPR/Cas9 and statistical coupling analysis to identify drivers of metastasis and chemotherapy resistance”
Alessandro Angelini (Wittrup Laboratory): “Development of a synergistic cancer immunotherapeutic strategy based on the co-administration of an extended serum half-life IL-2 and an engineered broad-spectrum agent targeting VEGF and multiple integrin receptors”
Nik Joshi (Jacks Laboratory): “Investigation of the mechanisms of the anti-tumor response following therapeutic T cell depletion in a model of lung adenocarcinoma”
2014 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Alessandro Angelini (Wittrup Laboratory): “Multi-specific antibody targeting tumor-secreted pro-angiogenic CXC (ELR+) chemokines”
Guillaume Carmona (Gertler Laboratory): “Members of the Ena/VASP family of actin regulators have distinct roles in regulating membrane protrusion and breast cancer cell motility”
Yoav Shaul (Sabatini/Yaffe Laboratory): “Molecular function of the metabolic enzyme DPYD in the EMT program and metastasis”
Carsten Kroll (Imperiali Laboratory): “Tailoring bivalent ligands to address and study ErbB receptor-mediated motility and migration of tumor cells”
Mun Hwang (Yaffe Laboratory): The role of MAPKAPK2 in metastasis through the phosphorylation-dependent remodeling of actin cytoskeleton proteins”
Florian Bock (Chang Laboratory): “PARP13 regulates TRAIL signaling”
2013 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Aaron Gajadhar (White Laboratory): “Understanding and overcoming Herceptin resistance in metastatic breast cancer using phosphoproteomic insights”
Guillaume Carmona (Gertler Laboratory): “Members of the Ena/VASP family of actin regulators have distinct roles in regulating membrane protrusion and breast cancer cell motility”
Roberta Ferretti (Lees Laboratory): “Molecular mechanisms driving Bmi1-induced melanoma metastasis”
Belinda Pinto (Orr-Weaver Laboratory): “Regulation and role of the shugoshin, Mei-S332, during chromosome segregation: Implications of cancer”
Haihui Lu (Weinberg Laboratory): “Monocytes/macrophages support metastatic breast cancer stem cells via Eph-Ephrin signaling and activation of a cytokine signaling network”
Chenxi Tian (Hynes Laboratory): “Understanding the roles of extracellular matrix proteins in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma progression”
Miri Jwa (Gertler Laboratory): “The mechanism of PARP-16 function in the unfolded protein response”
Nina Fenouille (Hemann Laboratory): “Identifying metastasis drivers in cancer using in vivo RNAi screening”
2012 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Roberta Ferretti (Lees Laboratory): “Dissection of Bmi 1’s role in malignant melanoma onset and metastasis progression”
Guillaume Carmona (Gertler Laboratory): “Members of the Ena/VASP family of actin regulators have distinct roles in regulating membrane protrusion and breast cancer cell motility”
Sarah Kolitz (Lauffenburger Laboratory): “Investigating signaling contributions to metastatic potential via single-cell measurements of kinase activities”
Nina Fenouille (Hemann Laboratory): “Identifying metastasis drivers as drug targets in melanoma using in vivo RNAi screening”
James Van Deventer (Wittrup Laboratory): “Investigation of the functions of fibroblast activation protein-α in invasion and metastasis”
2011 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Miri Jwa (Chang Laboratory): “Implications that the ER transmembrane protein PARP-16 increases metastatic potential via unfolded protein response (UPR) signaling”
Alexandra Naba (Hynes Laboratory): “Role of the extracellular matrix in tumor progression and metastasis formation”
Christine Chaffer (Weinberg Laboratory): “Cellular plasticity as a determinant of metastatic ability”
2010 Ludwig Postdoctoral Fellows
Tsukasa Shibue (Weinberg Laboratory): “Breast cancer metastasis: The role of systematic activation of immune cells by the carcinoma cells”
Trudy Oliver (Jacks Laboratory): “Investigating the role of the p53 target gene, Pidd, in chemotherapy resistance”