Lab News and Events

Current and former Brugge lab members met at the AACR Annual meeting. Congrats to Patricia Cho and Kenneth Gray for their Scholar-In-Training awards!

The Brugge Lab bid farewell to Natalie Hendrick and Nobu Takahashi. Natalie will be working as Science Advisor in the Intellectual Property group at Goodwin Procter LLP. Nobu is starting his own research group as Associate Professor at Kyoto University. Good luck to you both!

Two of our talented undergrad students, Alexis Cook and Hana Shapiro, did a great job presenting their research at Northeastern University's annual RISE (Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo) symposium.

Congratulations to Natalie Hendrick for a successful thesis defense!

Also big thumbs up to Isaac Harris for his new paper in Cell Metabolism on glutathione depletion in cancer. 

The Brugge Lab celebrated the new year with a lab lunch.

Also congratulations to Claudia Iavarone on her paper published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, studying combination treatment of high-grade serous ovarian cancer!

Two thumbs up to Suha Abu Amara and Yaara Oren for giving their outstanding talks on tumor heterogeneity and drug resistance, respectively, in the EACR-AACR-ISCR Conference!

The Brugge Lab is also proud to have won both the Best Halloween Costume Award and Best Carved Pumpkin Award in this year's HMS Cell Biology Departmental Retreat. Big thanks to captain Natalie Hendrick for leading the team!

Congratulations to Yannis Zervantonakis for soon starting his own lab in University of Pittsburg! Check out his lab website and %20Ioannis_Zervantonakishms.harvard.edu (contact him) for lab positions.

Also congratulations to Nobuaki Takahashi for accepting the position of Associate Professor in Kyoto University! %20Nobuaki_Takahashihms.harvard.edu (Email Nobu) if you are interested in applying to his lab.

Hana Shapiro and Michelle Koh did an excellent job presenting their summer research projects at Harvard's CRISP and PRISE undergraduate symposiums, respectively. Congrats!

The lab said good-bye to Claudia Iavarone and Jennifer Endress. Jenn is starting her Ph.D. program at Weill Cornell Medical College! Claudia is starting a new position in the Technology Transfer and Innovation office at the European Institue of Oncology (IEO) in Milan, Italy!

The lab bid a bitter-sweet farewell to Jon Coloff before he moves to University of Illinois at Chicago to start his own lab. Good luck Jon! Check out Jon's lab website if you are interested in joining.

Johan gave a great short-talk presentation at the Mammary Gland Biology Gordon Research Seminar on intratumoral heterogeneity.

Congratulations to Nobuaki Takahashi on his paper in Cancer Cell. Here is Harvard's press release.

The Brugge lab also celebrated Sabin's thesis defense. Congratulations Sabin! 

And thumbs up to Kenneth for being awarded the F31 Predoctoral Fellowship from the NCI.

Reunion of current and former Brugge lab members at the 2018 AACR Annual Meeting. Big thanks to Natalie and Rosa for organizing the gathering! Our Jennifer Rosenbluth gave a great presentation on mammary organoids.

Big congrats to Yaara for receiving the Rivkin Scientific Scholar Award!

Congratulations to Jon for starting his own metabolism lab soon in the University of Illinois at Chicago! Contact him if you are interested in joining his team.

Lab holiday celebration and farewell for Marcin.

Congratulations to Claudia Iavarone and Carman Li for being selected for short-talk presentations at the AACR meetings on ovarian cancer and mouse models of cancer, respectively.

Congratulations to Marcin Iwanicki for soon starting his lab in Stevens Institute of Technology! He is recruiting lab members. Contact miwanickstevens.edu (Marcin) for information.

Congratulations to Jonathan Coloff for his K22 Award and to Yannis Zervantonakis for his K99!

Dan Stover has opened his lab at Ohio State University. Congrats Dan!

A lab lunch to celebrate the start of 2017!