News Archive

November 2018
Elisa tH. awarded Scholar Award from the American Society of Hematology (ASH)
David B. presented at the International Kidney Cancer Symposium in Miami, FL.

September 2018
David B. awarded grant by the Department of Defense: “Using Single Cell Transcriptomics to Understand Tumor and Immune Heterogeneity Driving Resistance and to Rationally Select Immune Therapy in Advanced RCC” (KC170216; PIs: M. Atkins & C. Wu)

David B. awarded grant by the NIH/NCI, DF/HCC Kidney Cancer SPORE: “Using Single Cell Transcriptomics to Understand Tumor and Immune Heterogeneity in Renal Cell Carcinoma”

September 2018
Dr. Wu named the new Chief of the Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Division of Medical Oncology

May 31, 2018
Dr. Wu featured in Harvard Magazine issue on Precision Medicine

May 6, 2018
Anabelle Anandappa was a speaker in the Cancer Vaccines Symposia at the American Association of Immunology (AAI) Annual Meeting in Austin, TX

April 12, 2018
Annabelle Anandappa awarded Martha Gray Prize for Excellence in Research at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Forum

March 27, 2018
Annabelle Anandappa gave a short talk at Keystone Symposium on Cancer Immunotherapy: Combinations in Montreal, Quebec

March 2018
Catherine Gutierrez awarded ASH Minority Medical Minority Medical Student Award

January 5, 2018
Dr. Wu interviewed on WBUR’s “This Moment in Cancer” special series

December 29, 2017
Dr. Wu named one of “Nine Innovators to Watch in 2018” by Smithsonian Magazine

December 15, 2017
Dr. Anat Biran awarded Lymphoma Research Foundation’s inaugural Oliver W. Press, MD, PhD, Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship

December 9, 2017
Drs. Zhuting Hu and Elisa ten Hacken gave oral presentations at the 59th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA

October 25, 2017
Dr. Wu featured on Novel Targets podcast

October 16, 2017
Dr. Wu one of four DFCI researchers joining the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

September 12, 2017
Dr. Wu name co-PI of the DFCI CIMAC-CIDC Network, an initiative of the NCI Cancer Moonshot that provides cutting-edge technology and expertise in genomic, proteomic, and functional molecular analysis to enhance clinical trials in cancer immune therapies NCI Awards Cancer Moonshot Grants in Five Areas of Precision Medicine Oncology

DFCI Inside the Institute article about award

July 5, 2017
Personal neoantigen vaccine prompts strong anti-tumor response in patients, new study shows
Dana-Farber news release

June 2017
Dr. Elisa ten Hacken awarded Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Career Development Program Special Fellow Award

April 12, 2017
Dr. Wu’s research featured in Science News: Personalized tumor vaccines keep cancer in check

December 22, 2015
Study chart 'genomic biography' of form of leukemia
Inside the Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Volume 20, Issue 24, Page 3

Sepetember 22, 2015
New technique allows researchers to spot mutatins in 'genomic jungle'
Inside the Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Volume 20, Issue 18, Page 1

June 30, 2015
Congratulations to Pavan Bachireddy for receiving Young Investigator Award Recipient at ASCO meeting, Dan Landau for receiving prestigious career award!
Inside the Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Volume 20, Issue 13, Page 2

June, 2015
Congratulations to Annabelle Anandappa for receiving ASH HONORS Award for Medical Students (award dates: 6/15/2015 - 9/4/2015)!

2015
Congratulations to Pavan Bachireddy, received 2015 TRTH award from EHA-ASH, 2015 Young Investigator Award Recipient from ASCO/Conquer Cancer Foundation, also Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award!

December 15, 2014
Disorder in gene-control system is defining characteristic of cancer, study finds
DFCI Intranet Comment on Landau et al's paper (Cancer Cell 26(6):813-25,2014)

December 8, 2014
Epigenetic Noise Fuels Cancer Evolution
Cancer Cell comment on Landau et al's paper (Cancer Cell 26(6):813-25,2014)

October 21, 2014
Congratulations to Dan Landau, receives a training award from NIH's new Big Data to Knowledge(BD2K) initiative!
Inside the Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Volume 19, Issue 20, Page 4

August 14, 2014
Old and new news in CLL: “It’s the pathway, stupid!”
Comment on Wang et al's paper (Blood 124(7):1089-98,2014)

February 19, 2014
Wu receives ‘Quest for Cures’ grant from Leukemia Lymphoma Society
Inside the Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 2

December, 2013
Cancer: Motley malignancies
Nature Medicine, Notable advances comment on Landau et al.'s paper (Cell 152(4):714-26,2013)

August 27, 2013
Researchers Develop Vaccine To Boost Immune Systems of Patients With Leukemia
BostonMagazine.com

August 5, 2013
Vaccine stirs immune activity against advanced, hard-to-treat leukemia
Dana-Farber Newsroom

February 4, 2013
Study tracks genetic evolution of form of leukemia, may help physicians predict course of disease, tailor therapies
Dana-Farber Newsroom