Vakoc lab – PI, PhD students, Postdocs
Yuan Gao
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Epigenetic regulation by sphingolipids
Yuhan Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: A tuft cell variant of small-cell lung cancer
Stella Hur
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Lineage dependencies in pancreas cancer
Olaf Klingbeil
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Next-gen CRISPR screening
Cristian Lopez-Cleary
PhD student
Project: Synthetic lethality in Rhabdomyosarcoma
Bin Lu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Mechanisms of MLL-fusion oncoproteins
Diogo Maia e Silva
PhD student
Project: Lineage infidelity in cancer
Sofya Polyanskaya
PhD student
Project: Phosphatase dependencies in acute myeloid leukemia
Damianos Skopelitis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Identifying actionable breast cancer dependencies
Tim Somerville
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Sqamous reprogramming in pancreas cancer
Martyna Sroka
PhD student
Project: Targeting fusion oncoproteins in sarcoma
Yusuke Tarumoto
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Salt-inducible kinases as leukemia drug targets
Yiliang Wei
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Bone marrow signals that support leukemogenesis
Xiaoli Wu
PhD student
Project: POU2F3 coactivators in small cell lung cancer
Zhaolin Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: DNA repair pathways in MLL leukemia
Toyoki Yoshimoto
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Targeted therapy development in Rhabdomyosarcoma
Vakoc lab – Administration & Support Staff
Lukas Benjamin
Lab Technician
Joseph Milazzo
Lab Manager
Lindsay Monaco
Scientific Administrator
Functional Genomics Core
Kenneth Chang
Research Assistant Professor and
Head of the Functional Genomics Core
Osama El Demerdash
Functional Genomics Core
Bioinformatics
Kaarina Hanington
Functional Genomics Core
Research Technician
Vakoc lab alumni
Eric Wang (research technician from 2008-2015) -> currently a PhD student at NYU
Jessica Minder (research technician from 2013-2015) -> currently a PhD student at NYU
Anand Bhagwat (PhD student from 2012-2016)- > currently finishing his MD at Stony Brook Medical School as part of MSTP program
Junwei Shi (PhD student from 2010-2016) -> currently an Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Anja Hohmann (PhD student from 2012-2016) -> currently a Senior Scientist at KSQ Therapeutics
Chen Shen (PhD student from 2012-2016) -> currently a Senior Scientist at Pfizer
Yali Xu (PhD student from 2013-2018) -> current an Investigator at Novartis
Shinpei Kawaoka (postdoc from 2012-2013) -> currently a Group Leader at JST ERATO, Kyoto Japan
Jae-Seek Roe (postdoc from 2012-2018) -> currently an Assistant Professor Yonsei University