2026
Welcome to two new members of the lab, Dr. Mohammad Imran Khalil Khan (who joined in May of 2025) and Dr. Debdatta Halder (who joined in December of 2025).
We are so grateful to receive foundation funding for the next 3 years to develop new models of Glioblastoma Residual Disease at the Tumor Resection Margin!
2025
Balu Pai’s study “Spatial Multiomics Defines a Shared Tumor Infiltrative Signature at the Resection Margin in High-Grade Gliomas” was published in Cancer Research. This was a true team effort and tour de force and we are grateful to everyone for their help, including our long-standing computational collaborators Elena Zaslavsky and Vincy Cheng for their expertise and guidance, Susana Ramos for scATAC-seq analysis, and Dr. Ramund Yong from neuro-surgery for providing precious samples with extensive resection margin that made this analysis possible.
Congratulations to Thenzing Silva-Hurtado. His abstract titled, “Improving glioblastoma survival by combining YAP-TEAD inhibitors with surgical resection in preclinical xenograft models” was selected for The American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP) Trainee Travel Award for the hybrid AANP 101st Annual Meeting.
Good buy to Balu and Susana. After a long tenure in the lab, they have moved on to senior scientist / postdoc positions in Germany and the UK. We will miss them dearly.
2024
Balu was awarded best poster presentation at the 2024 SNO meeting for his abstract on spatial multi-omics profiling of the infiltrative margin in GBM. Congrats, Balu!
The Tsankova lab received renewed NIH R01 funding for the next 5 years. We continue our focused efforts to harness YAP-TEAD activity as anti-invasion therapeutic in Human GBM !!!
2023
Nadia Tsankova became tenured as a Professor in Pathology! This means free breakfast at lab meeting 🙂
2022
Susana’s abstract was awarded and selected for oral presentation at the Mount Sinai Pathology Research Day. Congrats to Susana!
Balu Pai’s paper “High‑resolution transcriptomics informs glial pathology in human temporal lobe epilepsy” was published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications! We thanks Jessica for initiating this project and our fantastic long-term collaborator Elena Zaslavsky, and Vincy Cheng and German Nudelman in her group, for their continuous help!
Susana Ramos’s work on resolving human fetal gliogenesis through single nucleus transcriptomics is now out in Nature Communications! We thank Elisa and Zarmeen for their great help with this project, and computational collaborator Dr. Alex Tsankov and his group for their help and guidance.
Welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Thenzing Silva!
2021
Anne Marie‘s work on the anti-invasive therapeutic efficacy of the FDA-approved Hippo inhibitor Verteporfin has been published in Neuro-Oncology!
Years of hard work and dedication will hopefully bring us one step closer to offering patients effective treatment for this dismal disease!
What an honor! Zarmeen‘s abstract “Single-nuclei transcriptomics relates glioblastoma infiltration to distinct glial progenitor states” has been selected for oral presentation at this year’s SNO meeting at Boston. Congrats, Zarmeen!
Congratulations to Tanvi Joshi for defending her master’s thesis! Brilliant job!
Congratulations to Tanvi Joshi for being the recipient of the Women in Science Travel Scholarship!
We won the Rubenstein Award for best paper on neuro-oncology presented at the 2021 AANP meeting! Shout out to Zarmeen and her helpers!
Welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Balu (Balagopal) Pai!
2020
Welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Susana Isabel Ramos! Susana bring neurodevelopmental expertise and will be characterizing glial lineage drivers during prenatal human development and the co-option of developmental programs, such as Hippo signaling, in glioblastoma.
Zarmeen’s abstract has been selected for oral presentation and live seminar on single cell omics at the 2020 SNO conference. Congratulations, Zarmeen, on outstanding work!
2019
Congratulations to Dr. Anne Marie Barrette, Ph.D., for her brilliant thesis defense !
The lab was awarded a second R01 from the Brain Initiative to characterize the dynamic chromatin topology, transcription factor binding, and kinetics during human glial neurodevelopment, with single cell resolution!
The lab was awarded R01 funding from the NINDS to study the crosstalk between Hippo and EGFR signaling pathways in GBM!
2018
Anne Marie received Best Oral Presentation award at the Pharmacological Science Retreat!
2017
The lab was awarded two NIH grants to study the role of glial dysfunction in GBM and in Epilepsy.
Dr. Tome-Garcia is the 2017 recipient of the Joseph Schein Fellowship in Experimental/Molecular Pathology. Well deserved, Jessica!
2016
Dr. Tsankova – The 2016 Faculty Idea Prize Winner Award, Mount Sinai Innovations.
Dr. Tsankova – 2016 Friedman Brain Institute Research Scholar Award.
2000-2015
Dr. Tsankova – Howard Hughes Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship, UT Southwestern
Dr. Tsankova – Stembridge Award for Excellence in Pathology, UT Southwestern
Dr. Tsankova – Epigenetics Core Facility Funding Award, Columbia University
Dr. Tsankova – Irving Institute for Clinical/Translational Research Award, Columbia University