We are grateful to the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance for a Young Investigator Award!
https://psscra.org/prize/2022-winners/
Robert’s paper using gaseous labeling to identify a new intermediate in CoQ10 biosynthesis is now published:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03865-w
Congratulations!
Robert Banh, a former postdoc in Alec Kimmelman’s lab and my lab, has started his own lab at NYU. See his webpage at https://banhlab.org. We will miss you - and good luck!
This post is belated… Guangbin Shi joined the lab in January from Rhode Island Hospital. A belated welcome to Guangbin!
We are pleased to announce our first publication demonstrating that brain metastases depend on serine synthesis, an equal collaboration with the Cantley Lab, published in Cancer Discovery. Congratulations to co-first authors Bryan, Eugenie, and Victoria!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32571778/
https://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2020/06/20/2159-8290.CD-19-1228.long
Victoria Osorio Vasquez was formally awarded an NCI F31 award today to support work on the altered metabolism of metastases. Congratulations!
We are very grateful to the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for an Innovation Award, which will fund high-risk, high-reward work in the lab on novel metabolomics and tracing techniques.
Quentin Spillier has joined the lab. He hails from Dr. Raphaël Frédérick’s lab in Belgium. Welcome!
We are pleased to welcome Eugenie Kim and Esther Kim, new research assistants, and Victoria Osorio Vasquez from the Pharmacology PhD program at Sackler!
Lenny Negron Pineiro has joined the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
We are very grateful to the V Foundation for Cancer Research for a V Scholar Grant!
https://www.jimmyv.org
We are grateful to the National Cancer Institute for an NCI K22 career transition grant!
We are very grateful to the Mary Kay Foundation for awarding the lab a 2017 Mary Kay Foundation Cancer Research Grant!
https://www.marykayfoundation.org/cancergrantrecipients
Robert Banh has joined the Kimmelman and Pacold Labs! Robert comes to us from Ben Neel's lab. He joined while Ben was at Toronto and moved to NYU. Welcome!
The Pacold Lab website goes live!