Faculty
Principal Investigator Laura D. Attardi, Ph.D., FAACR
Catharine and Howard Avery Professor of the School of MedicineDepartments of Radiation Oncology and GeneticsCo-Director, Cancer Biology ProgramEmail: attardi@stanford.edu |
Phone: (650)725-8424 Fax: (650)723-7382 |
Education: Ph.D., Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1994 |
| Stanford Profile: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Laura_Attardi/ |
Lab Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Mengxiong Wang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
| Email: wang0512@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 723-5261 |
| Education: Ph.D., Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida, 2019; M.P.H., Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, 2015; M.D., Medicine, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2012. |
| Research Interests: My research focuses on the role of p53 in regulating pancreatic cancer regression and tumor microenvironment. |
Sofia Morgadinho Ferreira, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
| Email: sferre@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 723-5261 |
| Education: Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular aspects of Biology, University of Paris-Sud, France, 2019 M.Sc. in Cancer Biology, University of Algarve, Portugal, 2015 B.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences, University of Algarve, Portugal, 2013 |
| Research Interests: My research focuses on investigating the p53 pathways in pancreatic cancer and their impact in treatment response |
Carrie Tambo, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
| Email: ctambo@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 723-5261 |
| Education: Ph.D. Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2022. B.S.,Biology, California State University, Fresno, 2015 |
| Research Interests: We know that p53 has many binding partners and depending on what p53 is interacting with will give rise to varying tumor suppressive responses. This is why I am working towards elucidating the p53 interactome as this will provide as a blueprint for the expansive p53 regulatory network and can help us explain where and how these downstream responses originate. |
Kha Nguyen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
| Email: tknguyen@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 723-5261 |
| Education: Ph.D. in Life Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea, 2019; M.E. in Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2014 |
| Research Interests: my research focuses on understanding roles of p53 on tumorigenesis and how we can translate these knowledges into cancer therapies. In particular, I try to understand the connection of p53 on epigenetic regulation, thereby contributing to tumor suppression. |
Graduate Students
Camila Bolle, Graduate Student
| Email: bolle@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 723-5261 |
| Education: B.S. Biology, College of New Jersey |
| Research Interests: My research interests focus on investigating core elements of the p53 pathway in lung adenocarcinoma. My work utilizes mouse models and in vitro experiments to elucidate mechanisms of tumor suppression in the p53-axis. |
Aru Rajeevan, Graduate Student
| Email: rajeevan@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 723-5261 |
| Education: B.S., Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019 |
| Research Interests: Embryonic development and tumor progression share a number of mechanisms including rapid proliferation, migration, and immune evasion. Recent work from the Attardi lab has shown that p53 plays a role in cell lineage specification during tissue regeneration following injury, and that this function of p53 may be compromised in lung adenocarcinoma. My research interest regards the role of p53 during embryonic lung development and whether it may be directing prenatal epithelial cell differentiation. Studying this process in the developing mouse lung may lead to insights that will improve cancer diagnosis and therapy. |
Edel McCrea, Graduate Student
| Email: emmccrea@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 723-5261 |
| Education: B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Davis 2015 |
| Research Interests: My work focuses on non-canonical p53 transcriptional target genes. By leveraging proteomics and other biochemical in vitro experiments, I hope to elucidate the protein interaction network of these p53 target genes. For the second arm of my project, I'm investigating the effects of knocking out these target genes in in vivo models of cancer to better understand their contribution to p53-mediated tumor suppression. |
Kathryn Hanson, Graduate Student
| Email: kjhanson@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 723-5261 |
| Education: B.S., Chemistry/Biological Chemistry Track, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018 |
| Research Interests: I am interested in the role of p53 during the initiation and early development of pancreatic cancer. Through leveraging mouse models of pancreatic cancer, my work will determine the mechanisms of p53 tumor suppression during early stages of pancreatic cancer. Understanding the role of p53 in pancreatic cancer development will be crucial for improved early detection and treatment. |
Undergraduate Students
Life Science Research Professionals
Aicha Mabene, REACH Post-baccalaureate Student
| Email: amabene@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 723-5261 |
| Education: B.S., Physics - Biophysics, UC San Diego, 2022 |
| Research Interests: The roles of p53 and non-canonical p53 target genes in lung cancer and pancreatic cancer. |
Lab Manager
Takako Tabata, Attardi Lab Manager
| Email: tabata25@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (415) 516-8326 |
| Education: Ph.D. Showa University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Virology/Clinical Pathology |
Administrative Associate
Jen Guzman, Administrative Associate
| Email: jeguzman@stanford.edu |
| Phone: (650) 724-0261 |
| Education: B.S. Business Administration - Finance, San Jose State, CA |