🎗 Beltran Lab News 🎗
Congratulations Martin Bakht for receiving a 2024 Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award!
Oct 2024- Beltran Lab Pumpkin by Min and Rebecca
August 2024- Congratulations to Balaji for his paper on EZH2 published in Nature Communications!
July 2024- Congrats to Shengyu for his paper on Notch signaling published in JCI!
Congrats to Martin for his review on PSMA in Nature Reviews Urology!
Our lab's high school student Keira presenting her poster in the final week of the ContinUed Research Engagement (CURE) summer program. with Super-Mentor Balaji.
Great day talking science at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Prostate SPORE Retreat
March 2024- Cancer Discovery Cover Art featuring our paper! Our paper is on non-invasive detection of NEPC through cfDNA methylation. Great collaboration with the Demichelis Lab!
December 2023- Congrats Yasutaka on his paper in Science Translational Medicine on co-targeting DNA methylation and B7-H3 in prostate cancer
December 2023 - Congratulations to Balaji, who was awarded the 2023 CURE Mentor Award! Mentor to Kenny Weng, who said of Balaji: "He provides a welcoming environment where the mentee has leeway to fail and learn more from the experiment. It is a great place to start one's research journey."
December 2023 - Check out our latest News and Views in Nature Cell Biology. Here is link to full text
November 2023 - Congratulations to Dr. Hiroshi Hongo who was awarded a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to support his research.
October 2023 - Congratulations to Balaji, recipient of a 2023 PCF Young Investigator Award! His project is entitled "Defining Lineage-Specific PRC2 Action and Rational Co-Targeting of EZH1/2 in Prostate Cancer"
October 2023 - Congratulations to Dr. Beltran whose team was granted a 2022 PCF TACTICAL Award! Here is the full list of awards.
April 2023 - Congratulations to Balaji, Yasutaka, Kenny, and Osasenaga for their review article on the important role of RB1 loss in cancer.
April 2023 - Congratulations to Martin publishing his work in Nature Cancer on the landscape of PSMA heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer
March 2023 - Balaji presenting his latest work at AACR Prostate
February 2023 - Congratulations to Dr. Beltran for for being awarded the Richard A. Smith Prize to recognize her distinguished and continuing achievement in scientific research.
February 2023 - Congratulations to Dr. Beltran for receiving a PCF Challenge Award to develop novel immunotherapies for patients with neuroendocrine prostate cancer.
Here is the complete list of Awardees
June 2022 - We are excited to have Kenny Weng this summer as a CURE scholar to study targeting cell cycle regulators in prostate cancer. Welcome Kenny!
Feb 2022 - Congratulations to Shengyu winning the first prize for his abstract at 14th Annual Multi-Institutional Prostate Cancer SPORE retreat!
2022 - Congratulations to Balaji and Martin for receiving prestigious DoD PCRP @CDMRP Early Investigator Research Awards!! Here is the complete list of Awardees.
June 2021 - We are very glad to welcome Osase Idahor this summer as a CURE scholar to develop novel therapeutic strategies for advanced prostate cancer. Welcome Osase!
​May 2021 - Congratulations to Dr. Varadha Balaji Venkadakrishnan who was awarded a fellowship from National Cancer Center to support his research.
Jan 2021 - Congratulations to Dr. Beltran for receiving an inaugural Helen Trailblazer Award funded by The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation in support of advancing the careers of women and cultivating female leaders.
Jan 2021 - Congratulations to Dr. Beltran who has been named as a Top Doctor in Boston Magazine, along with many colleagues at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Oct 2020 - The Beltran lab is growing! We are delighted to welcome a new research fellow, Dr. Varadha Balaji Venkadakrishnan, to our team!
April 2020 - Welcome Dr. Yasutaka Yamada. He joins the Beltran lab as a research fellow and will focus on translational research in advanced prostate cancer.
March 2020 - Congratulations to Cinzia for her new paper studying the role of SLFN11 in advanced prostate cancer and response to platinum-based chemotherapy. Bravo!
Feb 2020 - Dr. Beltran published a new study to use cfDNA genomics & methylation to understand prostate cancer transformation and identify neuroendocrine prostate cancer. Great teamwork with Francesca Demichelis and many collaborators! Congratulations!
​Feb 2020 - Welcome medical student -Antony Pellegrino
​Jan 2020 - The Beltran lab welcomes Dr. Martin Bakht joining our team as a postdoctoral fellow!
Dec 2019- Congratulations to Shengyu for receiving a DoD PCRP Early Investigator Research Award!
June 2019 - Congratulations to Cinzia on her ASCO Merit Award
​Jan 2019 - Beltran Lab Cover art
Oct 2018 - Congratulations to Shengyu for his PCF Young Investigator Award!
April 2018 - Congratulations, Lori! Published her NEPC organoid paper in Nature Communications
Oct 2017 - Our lab received a PCF Challenge Award with the Zoubeidi lab!