5/31/19 Welcome Royena Tanaz, MSc to the JAG Lab team as our Administrative Assistant! Looking forward to working with you.
5/20/19 Welcome Bassem Khalil, PhD to conduct his post-doctoral training in the JAG-LAB on nuclear receptors and DTC dormancy!
5/9/19 Proud of Erica Dalla – grad student Lab for receiving a best poster award at the tumor heterogeneity meeting. Fantastic job !
4/29/19 Congrats to our one and only Lab for passing her PhD Thesis Proposal Exam on the role of macrophage subtypes in regulating DTC fate. She did an impressive job. Well done! We are all proud 🙂
4/25/19 Great visit today Division of Cancer Biology to present our new work on bone marrow niches, early dissemination and dormancy. Nice to see old friends like Dr. Yuspa and the metastasis gang . Thanks for a fun day!
4/13/19 New York and neighbors that like the tumor (also DTC and metastasis) microenvironment – come join us!
4/11/19 Delighted to receive in the lab Drs. Lena Wullkopf and Wei Zheng. Lena joins us from the (Denmark) where she got her PhD and Wei after a postdoc in the Pollard lab (Einstein – USA / Edinburgh – UK). Welcome! Looking forward to working with you!
4/11/19 Sign up for the Seed and Soil: Mechanisms of Metastasis Meeting taking place in Berlin, Germany : 7 – 9 October 2019 @EACR
3/27/19 Thanks to for the highlight of Lab and basic – to clinical efforts in prostate cancer.https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/specialty-reports/cancer?accordionAction=accordion-jump_link-45570598
3/26/19 Interested in supporting cutting edge metastasis research? There is an opportunity through the Investigator and Research Project Awards Lab. Follow this link and thanks!
2/7/19 Delighted to share great news. HiberCell – a startup company that emerged from Lab and will target DTC dormancy is now live . Congrats to all that made this effort possible!
1/28/19 Welcome! Emma Risson from Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Est Ecole de l’INSERM, France, to do a rotation studying niches that dictate DTC fate Lab. She is also a mate enthusiast – she came to the right place
1/24/19 Congrats to the Sidi Lab for their paper! Happy to have helped with this effort.https://twitter.com/JAguirreGhiso/status/1088582326710349824
1/16/19 The Lab has an open position for a person with expertise in computational biology / bioinformatics to develop research in network analysis, single cell seq and additional big data mining to identify mechanisms and targets linked to metastasis.
1/14/19 Delighted to have Gabriel Rabinovich visiting and to give a talk.https://twitter.com/JAguirreGhiso/status/1084849813596839936
1/2/19 Delighted that and highlighted our work for the Focus piece that celebrates Nature Cell Biology’s 20 years! Thank you!
https://twitter.com/JAguirreGhiso/status/1080539469302910976
12/20/18 Our first paper from the uveal melanoma team is out!!! Congrats to the team Effects of Oncogenic Gαq and Gα11 Inhibition by FR900359 in Uveal Melanoma.
https://twitter.com/JAguirreGhiso/status/1075788914969980928
12/11/18 Enjoying my visit to to the Harper Cancer Institute and learning about their exciting science. Thanks for the invitation to visit!
12/8/18 Delighted to learn that Sam Sidi’s () new paper on IRAK1-PIN1 signaling & cancer resistance to radiation therapy was accepted in Nature Cell Biology . Great work starting from beautiful zebrafish biology. Congrats & happy to have helped a bit!!
11/20/18 Thanks to for highlighting our basic cancer research discoveries that through active collaborations with physicians are making it to patients like Frank Gregorio.
https://twitter.com/JAguirreGhiso/status/1065028857932251139
11/19/18 Had lots of fun with great science and scientists today – packed day organized by Adolfo Ferrando and Riccardo Dalla-Favera – thanks for being great hosts!
11/12/18 Congrats to our one and only for receiving the Cancer Biology Program award for excellence in graduate cancer research and Excellence in Scholastic performance 2018 – you make us very proud !
11/12/18 Delighted to have served as guest editor for this Springer – Nature book focused on advances in the knowledge on the biological mechanisms of MRD in solid and liquid tumors. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319977454
11/7/18 Thanks to and The METAribbon Challengers for supporting our work to target dormant cancer cells in stage IV cancer. Truly honored to receive this important grant.
10/23/18 Delighted for the recognition of our translational efforts with the Deal of the Year award from Mount Sinai Innovation Partners for a new startup focused on MRD and dormancy. Thanks!
10/15/18 Our new paper “NR2F1 stratifies dormant disseminated tumor cells in breast cancer patients” with the Naume lab and is out in . 1st cancer dormancy marker to be tested in patients! An important step. https://breast-cancer-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13058-018-1049-0
-9/3/18 Our paper “NR2F1 stratifies dormant disseminated tumor cells in breast cancer patients” in collaboration w/the Naume Lab @ Oslo University Hospital & is accepted in Breast Cancer Research! Thx to the Naume team for helping validate cancer dormancy research in the clinic.
-9/3/18 The whole is delighted to welcome Dr. Robert Wieder () join our team for a year of sabbatical research on DTC dormancy, ECM signaling and chemo-resistance. A great opportunity to learn from Robert and help him develop new work on dormancy!
-8/3/18 Delighted and honored to accept the position of President-elect (2020-2024) for the Metastasis Research Society . I look forward to working on all fronts of the vision of the Society to find new ways to monitor, prevent and treat metastasis.
-7/30/18 New clinical trial developed on bench to bedside science and efforts by is recruiting at . Identifier: NCT03572387. Honored to be part of this effort.
-7/23/18 Our new review in with the Condeelis team is out! Different Routes to Metastasis via Hypoxia-Regulated Programs: Trends in Cell Biology
-7/1/18 Honored to be an invited speaker for the 25th anniversary of the Beatson Cancer Center in Glasgow . Great first day of science. With Valerie Weaver, David Lyden and among others. Thank you!
-6/23/18 Transformative & inspiring 4 days of cancer dormancy science meeting. After 20 yrs on this problem, it is inspiring to see I am in great and growing company and that there is a new cadre of stubbornly smart dormancy researchers pushing forward.
-6/16/18 Thx Heidi & for the highlight! I am so proud of our cancer dormancy & MRD community vision & support. Special thanks to – perfect organization! will bring change. Cancer researchers target the dormant cells that seed tumours
-5/9/18 Congrats to Veronica Calvo @JaguirreGhiso Lab and @lillypad for the selection of her abstract for a proffered presentation at the AACR Special Conference on Cancer Dormancy and Residual Disease
-5/9/18 Congrats to Rosaline Sun @JaguirreGhiso Lab for the selection of her work for a Scholar-in-Training Award supported by Aflac, inc at the AACR Special Conference on Cancer Dormancy and Residual Disease!
– 5/4/18 Protocol update: for those that are using NR2F1 as a marker of dormancy – we have recently optimized the following antibody for immunofluorescence. It shows as a nuclear puncta which depending on the degree of expression/activity occupies different size areas in the nucleus. https://www.rndsystems.com/products/human-coup-tf-i-nr2f1-mab-clone-h8132-h8132_pp-h8132-00
-4/30/18 Congrats!! to Erica Dalla and Rosaline Sun from the Lab for their travel awards to the Cancer Dormancy and Residual Disease Meeting in Montreal, CA from the Graduate School and Postdoctoral Office, respectively.
-3/9/18 NEW! Our new review on cancer dormancy with the lab is out! And thanks to Tyler Jacks, Charles Sawyers and Jeff Settleman for the invitation to contribute.
-1/1/18 Welcome Melisa Lopez Anton as a new Postdoctoral Fellow in the Aguirre-Ghiso lab. Melisa will join the efforts to unravel the microenvironmental regulation of cancer cell dormancy.
– 1/1/18 Welcome Erica Dalla as a new PhD student in the Aguirre-Ghiso lab. We are delighted to have you join our team.
