Principal Investigator
Julien Sage
B.S., Ecole Normale Superieure, France, Biology
Ph.D., Nice University, France, Biology
Postdoctoral Fellows
Debadrita Bhattacharya
B.S., University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, Microbiology Honours
M.S., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, Biological Sciences
Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Research Interest: Investigating mechanisms promoting cell fate plasticity in cancers.
Maya Baron-Gershkovitz
B.S., Tel-Hai College, Israel, Nutrition
M.S., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Biomedical Science
Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Biomedical Science
Research Interest: Investigating the cancer-microbiome axis in small cell lung cancer.
Wen-Hao (Howard) Hsu
B.S., Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Life Science
M.S., Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Biology
Ph.D., UT MD Anderson, Houston, TX, Cancer Biology
Research Interest: My research interests lie in the mechanisms of cancer metastasis and seeking interventions for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) progression. I expect my work to contribute to clinical prevention and therapy in SCLC.
Alanna Kaplan
B.A.,Dartmouth College, Neuroscience
Ph.D., Yale University, Experimental Pathology
M.D.,Yale School of Medicine
Research Interest: metastasis, tumor microenvironment.
Jun Kim
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles, Bioengineering
Ph.D., Stanford University, Bioengineering
Research Interest: I am interested in studying alterations in signaling pathways in cancer cells and developing novel therapeutic strategies.
Yoko Nishiga
Joint appointment with lab of Edward Graves
B.S., Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
M.D., Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, Medicine
Ph.D., Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, Radiation Oncology and Image-applied Therapy
Research Interest: I’m interested in how radiotherapy affects immune cells in the tumor microenvironment and how to overcome the radioresistance of tumors.
Céline Prange
Postdoctoral Fellow collaborator in the Hernández-López Lab
B.S., M.S. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Switzerland, Interdisciplinary Sciences and Biology
Ph.D., École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Chemistry and Bioengineering
Research Interests: Designing effective T cell therapies to overcome tumor heterogeneity and immune-suppressive hurdles in the tumor microenvironment.
Graduate Students
Caterina I. Colón
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biology
Research Interest: I’m interested in leveraging immunotherapies against small cell lung cancer.
Oscar Donosa
B.S., University of California at San Diego, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and, B.S in Social Psychology
Research Interests: I'm interested in basic science research, in the context of cancer biology, that can lead to novel therapeutics.
Gina Nicole Duronio
B.S., Northeastern University, double major in Math and Cell and Molecular Biology
Research Interests: I'm interested in understanding the role of cancer stem cells in disease development and the importance of cell state plasticity and stem cell signaling in determining processes such as metastasis and the development of therapeutic resistance in cancer..
Griffin Hartmann
B.S., Brown University, Neuroscience (with Honors)
Research Interests: I’m interested in understanding environmental and intrinsic factors that aid metastatic seeding and colonization with an emphasis on brain metastasis.
Clara Poupault
B.Sc., University of Massachusetts Boston
Research Interests: I am interested in the role of the immune system in cancer development and progression and how we can use immunotherapies to treat cancer.
Krystina Szylo
Graduate student jointly appointed to the labs of Scott Dixon and Julien Sage
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles, Biochemistry
Research Interests: I’m interested in investigating molecular and metabolic pathways in cancer to identify therapeutic targets.
Undergraduate Students
Ariel Chien
Freshman at Stanford University
Marcus Hsieh
Junior at Stanford University, majoring in Symbolic Systems
Ryan Lee
Junior at Stanford University, majoring in Biology with a focus in Molecular, Cellular, and Organismal Biology
Lab Manager
Thuyen Nguyen
B.S., Texas A&M, Biochemistry
Research Interests: Since learning about organelles in seventh grade I fell in love with cell biology. I feel fortunate to have a rewarding career studying the protein pathways of disease, which had included analysis of the proteins involved in pigment formation, antibody drug therapy, and how certain drug treatments affect small cell lung cancer.
Research Administrator
Stanford, CA 94305