Aguirre Lab News
2025-10 The Aguirre Lab made a big impact at the 2025 AACR Special Conference on Pancreatic Cancer Research. Andy Aguirre co-chaired the meeting and highlighted how pancreatic cancer biology is driving new therapies. Julien Dilly and Josh Choe delivered lightning talks on cutting-edge RAS pathway and EMT resistance research, and Panot Sainamthip presented a poster exploring clonal hematopoiesis and survival in PDAC.
2025-09 Check out the new Cell Reports paper from the Aguirre Lab, which uses large-scale public datasets to identify cell-intrinsic and cell-surface dependencies as potential therapeutic targets in pancreatic cancer.
2025-08 We recently celebrated Kazuki Takahashi at a farewell party, as he is returning to Tokyo, Japan to continue his career at Daiichi Sankyo as Senior Scientist. We wish him all the best!
2025-08 Our summer student, Karen Khela, presented her research in a 10-minute oral presentation at the YES for CURE event on August 5th. We are proud of her hard work and the excellent presentation she delivered to cap off her summer in the lab!
2025-06 After three years in the lab, Laleh Abbassi is starting a clinical fellowship in Laboratory Genetics and Genomics (LGG) at Baylor College of Medicine. We are grateful for her contributions and wish her all the best in this next chapter!
2025-05 Congratulations to Dan Gui for being selected as a 2025 Lubin Family Foundation Scholar. Read more about this prestigious award and Dan's work here.
2025-05 Best of luck to James Allen, who after two years in the lab as a research technician is leaving to start medical school at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall.
2025-04 Several Aguirre lab members, including Josh Choe and Panot "Boom" Sainamthip, presented their work at the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting in Chicago.
2025-01 Congratulations to Andy on becoming a Co-Director for the newly launched DFCI Center for RAS Therapeutics! Read coverage by DFCI, Cancer Discovery News, Inside Precision Medicine, and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.
2024-12 Best of luck to visiting scientist Ji-Won Kim as he returns to Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. It was a pleasure hosting you in the lab!
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2024-10 Congratulations to Jasmine Feng on her new role as Senior Research Associate at Entrada Therapeutics!
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2024-09 Many members of the Aguirre lab attended the AACR Pancreas Cancer Conference in Boston. Congrats to Andy for delivering a fantastic talk!
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2024-09 Welcome to Julia Chiorean from Northeastern University, who will be joining us as a co-op!
2024-08 Congratulations to Ziyue Li on her new position as Senior Scientist at NextRNA Therapeutics!
2024-07 Check out our latest research publication, “Mechanisms of Resistance to Oncogenic KRAS Inhibition in Pancreatic Cancer,” out now in Cancer Discovery. A true collaborative effort! Congratulations to all the authors.
This paper was highlighted in the NCI's Cancer Currents Blog.
2024-06 We extend a warm welcome to our summer students Megan, Mahima, Rishi and Karen! We are so excited to host you in the lab.
2024-06 Welcome, Grace! We are excited to have you join us as a Research Technician.
2024-05 Congratulations to Sueda, Julien, and Josh, who all passed their pre-qualifying exams with flying colors!
2024-03 A warm welcome to Sho, who just joined as a postdoctoral fellow!
2024-01 A big congratulations to Andy Aguirre on his well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine!
2024-01 We are excited to welcome Prof Ji-Won Kim, a medical oncologist and Associate Professor at Seoul University, who has joined the Aguirre lab for his sabbatical. Welcome!