A huge congratulations to Kiddy for being named one of this year's Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows!

April 25, 2023 Haigis Lab

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants who are pursuing graduate education in the United States. Since 1998, 775 Fellows from 103 countries have been award Fellowships to pursue degrees of their choosing. This year, 30 individuals were selected out of nearly 2,000 applicants. The selection criteria focused on a student’s drive, creativity, intellectual spirit, and their commitment to the values at the heart of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Please read more about Kiddy’s accomplishment here: https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/kidist-ashami

Congratulations for this amazing achievement, Kiddy!

Congratulations, Alex!

February 28, 2023 Haigis Lab

Congratulations go to Alex who will be going to graduate school at UCLA in the fall!

Great work, Bing and Sarah!

April 20, 2022 Haigis Lab

Beautiful cover art by Sarah Schwarz accompanies Bing Shui's review on the interplay between K-RAS and miRNAs! Online now in the current issue of Trends in Cancer.

The Haigis Lab welcomes new Postdocs!

March 22, 2022 Haigis Lab

A warm welcome to Elif and Stefania! We are so excited they have chosen to join our lab as our newest Postdoctoral Fellows! Learn more about them on the “members” page.

Becca and Marza leaving the lab

September 21, 2021 Haigis Lab

On August 26, the Haigis Lab took advantage of the nice weather to enjoy a going away lunch for Marza and Becca!

Fay is featured on Inside the Institute!

August 12, 2021 Haigis Lab

Fay’s novel work on non-invasive imaging using Surface Enhanced Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SESORS) is featured in the August 10 issue of Inside the Institute! Congratulations, Fay!

Welcome Aboard! Debbie is our new lab manager!

June 7, 2021 Haigis Lab

We are so excited to have Debbie in our lab! Previously, She was a scientist of Ellis Lab at DFCI. Her extensive experience and skills will be a great addition to the team. Learn more about her on the “members” page.

Yi-Jang and Hyosoo leaving Haigis Lab

June 3, 2021 Haigis Lab

Haigis Lab had a going away party and farewell game for Yi-Jang and Hyosoo. It was so lovely to see everyone’s unmasked smile!

Josh's paper is accepted at Nature Communications!

February 6, 2021 Haigis Lab

Congratulations, Josh!
His paper studying about genetic interactions of KRAS alleles
across cancer-types is accepted and will be published at Nature Communications soon.

Welcome Rotation Student!

January 15, 2021 Haigis Lab

Welcome to Rhea Sahu who is joining us as a rotating graduate student! She is a G1 in the Harvard BBS program. During her rotation, she will work on bioinformatics and laboratory studies related to the epigenetics of tissue specificity in cancer.

Congratulations! Shayna has defended her thesis successfully

December 28, 2020 Haigis Lab

Lucia has finished postdoc and accepted leadership position at Ona Therapeutic

December 28, 2020 Haigis Lab

Lucia will start her new career in the promising biotech startup company, Ona Therapeutic in Spain as a senior scientist. She has left us but we will miss her always.

Fay is awarded the Trustee Science Committee Fellowship from DFCI

November 24, 2020 Haigis Lab

Congratulation to our new lab member Fay Nicolson who was awarded one of the Trustee Science Committee Fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The two-year Fellowship is designed to support promising post-doctoral trainees as they progress toward independent scientific careers and will support Fay’s current research into the use of SESORS imaging for the early detection of cancer.

Kevin Haigis has assumed the new position of Chief Scientific Officer

November 15, 2020 Haigis Lab

As part of the leadership transition at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Kevin Haigis has assumed the position of Chief Scientific Officer. Kevin joined Dana-Farber earlier this year as Chief Research Officer, where he has overseen the operation of Dana-Farber’s research program, planning, and implementing our overall scientific strategy through the difficult period of the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.dana-farber.org/about-us/leadership/

Welcome New Postdoc, Fay Nicolson

September 23, 2020 Haigis Lab

We are excited to welcome our new postdoctoral fellow, Fay Nicolson to the Haigis Lab! Dr. Nicolson has a PhD in Bionanotechnology in University of Strathclyde, UK. Her more information is on the members page.
Welcome to our team, Fay!

The First Socially Distanced Gathering (feat. Gifts for Yi-Jang)

July 27, 2020 Haigis Lab

Haigis Lab had a very first socially distanced gathering to celebrate Yi-Jang’s achieving Ph.D. degree.

Congratulations! Bing won the 2nd place in KGCR competition

July 1, 2020 Haigis Lab

Congratulations to Bing for coming in 2nd place in the Grunebaum Research Competition supported by The Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation.

All graduate students working in the field of cancer biology were invited to showcase their research and compete for prizes.

He presented “interaction between KRas signaling and miRNA machinery in colorectal cancer”

Welcome! New Members

June 8, 2020 Haigis Lab

We are excited to have new members, Becca Agnor (Left) & Shannon Hull (Right). They are just joined our team as a research lab technician. Becca has achieved B.S. degree in biology from UMass Amherst. Shannon has B.A. in Chemistry and also studied Physics as a minor from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.