Happy Birthday Abul!

Happy Birthday Abul!

Happy Birthday to our brilliant staff scientist, Dr. Abul Usmani! We had a wonderful time celebrating it at our lab meeting with yummy cake.
Summer lab picnic!

Summer lab picnic!

We had a wonderful time at our summer lab picnic which was in Forest Park. A nice celebration for the laboratory, catered toward our hard-working undergraduate researchers!
Congratulations to Mark Qiao!

Congratulations to Mark Qiao!

Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher, Mark Qiao, who was accepted to his top-choice Masters of Data Science program, and will be matriculating at the University of Washington in Seattle in the fall!
Dr. Chaudhuri wins the Michael Fry Award!

Dr. Chaudhuri wins the Michael Fry Award!

Dr. Chaudhuri has been awarded the 2022 Michael Fry Research Award from the Radiation Research Society, which recognizes an individual early in their career who has made significant contributions in one or more areas of radiation oncology research.
Children’s Tumor Foundation Conference!

Children’s Tumor Foundation Conference!

We had a wonderful time at the Children’s Tumor Foundation Neurofibromatosis conference. Lab members Paul Jones and Jeff Szymanski were integral to the conference with Paul winning the Young Investigator Award. We also had the opportunity to spend time with our dear collaborators, Dr. Angela Hirbe, Dr. Jack Shern and Dr. Taylor Sundby, and their […]
Star medical student Kevin Chen graduates!

Star medical student Kevin Chen graduates!

Congratulations to Kevin Chen who has graduated from WashU with both a MD and a MSCI. We are incredibly proud of you, and excited that you decided to stay at WashU to complete your residency in Radiation Oncology!!
Bruna Pellini presents major talk at ASCO!

Bruna Pellini presents major talk at ASCO!

Dr. Pellini delivered an incredibly compelling talk to kick-off the ctDNA session, titled “ctDNA — Dawn of a New Era”, at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. We are proud of her, now leading her own clinical and research enterprise at the Moffitt Cancer Center!
Congrats on your pre-print!

Congrats on your pre-print!

Congratulations to Erik Storrs, Abul Usmani and Prathamesh Chati for leading a pre-print publication in medRxiv on pancreatic cancer single-cell genomics!!
Our Nature Medicine paper is out!

Our Nature Medicine paper is out!

Beautiful collaborative work with Dr. Aaron Newman’s lab at Stanford! We deeply profiled peripheral blood features to predict severe immunotherapy toxicity in melanoma patients.
Chaudhuri lab Holiday Party 2022!

Chaudhuri lab Holiday Party 2022!

Our annual lab holiday party went virtual this year! Thrilled for those who could make it and missed those who couldn’t. Productive year and more importantly we were all there for each other. 🙂
Nice Swag!

Nice Swag!

Fun to get some nice stuff from Siteman Cancer Center right in time for the holidays!
Review article published!

Review article published!

Congratulations to medical student Kevin Chen for leading a fantastic effort diving into the world of commercial ctDNA assays for soid tumor MRD detection. It was fun putting this review article together with members of the laboratory, members of the Wash U ctDNA working group, and with former lab member Dr. Bruna Pellini (now at […]
Ricardo presents collaborative work at ASTRO

Ricardo presents collaborative work at ASTRO

ENT resident Dr. Ricardo Ramirez did a stellar job presenting his work (collaborating with MSTP student Noah Earland) on using surgical drain fluid as a liquid biopsy analyte for HPV+ head and neck cancer minimal residual disease, collaborative work between our lab and the laboratory of Dr. Jose Zevallos.
Kevin Chen presents poster at ASTRO

Kevin Chen presents poster at ASTRO

Medical student Kevin Chen did a stellar job presenting his poster at ASTRO. He presented on urine tumor DNA detection of muscle-invasive bladder cancer, work that he performed collaboratively with lab members Dr. Pradeep Chauhan, Dr. Rummi Babbra, Wenjia Feng, and Dr. Peter Harris.
Laboratory featured in the Oncology Times

Laboratory featured in the Oncology Times

Liquid biopsy research from the laboratory including work on NF1 MPNST detection, urine tumor DNA detection of bladder cancer, and the recently awarded NIH R35 award were featured in this nice article written in the Oncology Times!
Congratulations on the PLOS Medicine papers!

Congratulations on the PLOS Medicine papers!

Our laboratory is thrilled to celebrate two separate manuscripts published today in PLOS Medicine! One is by Dr. Jeff Szymanski, Dr. Taylor Sundby and colleagues, and features our expert co-corresponding authors Dr. Angela Hirbe and Dr. Jack Shern. The other is by Dr. Pradeep Chauhan, Kevin Chen, Dr. Rummi Babbra, Wenjia Fgeng and colleagues, and […]
Bilge Gungore awarded Caltech Named SURF

Bilge Gungore awarded Caltech Named SURF

Congratulations to our very own Bilge Gungore for being selected as a named Caltech SURF for 2021. She is officially the “Frederick W. Drury, Jr., SURF Fellow”. We are very proud of you Bilge!
Congratulations to Irfan and Noah!

Congratulations to Irfan and Noah!

We’re proud of our students, Noah Earland (MSTP student) and Irfan Alahi (Computer Science Phd student). Noah passed his Immunology qualifying exam and Irfan was selected for the Computer Science PhD student Honor Roll (awarded to top ~10%) for the 2nd year in a row!
Chaudhuri lab barbecue!

Chaudhuri lab barbecue!

Great times at our first in-person lab social in ~1.5 years – a barbecue at Babler State Park! This also doubled as a going-away party for Rummi Babbra and Haley Ellis who are both off to Heme Onc fellowship. Good luck to you both!
Congratulations to Kevin!

Congratulations to Kevin!

Kevin Chen was awarded a Blue Ribbon for his NIH TL1 poster on urine tumor DNA for MRD detection of muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Strong work!
Congrats on abstract acceptances to ASTRO!

Congrats on abstract acceptances to ASTRO!

We’re excited that our two translational research abstracts were accepted for presentation at the ASTRO Annual Meeting! Congratulations to Kevin Chen, Pradeep Chauhan, Rummi Babbra and Wenjia Feng for leading the charge on their abstract accepted for digital poster presentation. Congratulations to Noah Earland, Peter Harris, and our collaborators Ricardo Ramirez and Dr. Jose Zevallos […]
Congrats on our medRxiv publication!

Congrats on our medRxiv publication!

Huge congrats to the team led by Jeff Szymanski, Taylor Sundby and Paul Jones on our medRxiv publication! We analyzed cell-free DNA from NF1 patients and showed we could specifically distinguish patients with malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor sarcoma from those with its benign precursor lesion. A cool collaboration with the laboratories of Dr. Angie […]
Excited to welcome Caltech SURF students!

Excited to welcome Caltech SURF students!

We’re thrilled to welcome Bilge Gungoren and Aditee Prabhutendolkar, two bright Caltech undergraduates who will be joining us this summer through the Student Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program.
Bruna, Nadja & Wenjia publish their paper in JCO Precision Oncology!

Bruna, Nadja & Wenjia publish their paper in JCO Precision Oncology!

Co-first-authors Bruna, Nadja & Wenjia made a splash in the cell-free DNA liquid biopsy literature with their paper entitled ctDNA MRD Detection and Personalized Oncogenomic Analysis in Oligometastatic Colorectal Cancer From Plasma and Urine! See also Bruna’s tweetorial. We’re proud of you guys for this strong work along with the rest of the team which […]
Congratulations on your AACR abstracts!

Congratulations on your AACR abstracts!

Congratulations to our team and collaborators for 6 abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2021 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting! Special congratulations to primary authors Bruna Pellini (former fellow, now an Attending at Moffitt), Kevin Chen (medical student), Pradeep Chauhan (staff scientist), Jeff Szymanski (bioinformaticist), Prathamesh Chati (undergraduate) and Maher lab instructor […]
2020 Virtual Holiday Party!

2020 Virtual Holiday Party!

We had a fun virtual holiday lab party this year! Played the game “Two lies and a truth”. The winners included Steven Hartman and Wenjia Feng. We learned so much about each other including some surprising hidden talents!
Congratulations Haley!

Congratulations Haley!

We are proud of Haley Ellis for matching today to Hematology-Oncology fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Dana Farber/Mass General Hospital. Congratulations on a job well done!
Congratulations Rummi!

Congratulations Rummi!

Our very own Dr. Ramandeep Babbra has matched into Hematology-Oncology fellowship at the University of Rochester. We are very proud of you Rummi!
Congrats Jeff!

Congrats Jeff!

We had the pleasure to have Jeff Szymanski, our Division Bioinformaticist and close collaborator, present at the NIH Cell-Free DNA Interest Group. He presented research from our lab, collaborating with Dr. Angie Hirbe’s and Dr. Jack Shern’s groups. Nice talk!
Congratulations on your Talk Kevin!

Congratulations on your Talk Kevin!

Kevin Chen has been having quite the Year 2020! Enormous congrats to him for having his abstract selected for the Siteman Cancer Center Virtual Cancer Research Symposium, where he delivered a stellar oral presentation.
Congrats Bruna!

Congrats Bruna!

Please join me in congratulating our very own Dr. Bruna Pellini, for her presentation at the NIH Circulating Nucleic Acids/Liquid Biopsy Meeting. Strong work!
Congratulations Prathamesh!

Congratulations Prathamesh!

Congratulations to Prathamesh Chati, our prodigal undergraduate student! His abstract was accepted for an oral presentation at the Midstates Consortium Biology/Psychology Research Symposium. Impressive work Prathamesh!
Congrats on ASTRO

Congrats on ASTRO

An enormous congratulations to our team members including Bruna Pellini, Ramandeep Babbra, and Jeffrey Szymanski for giving stellar digital poster and oral presentations at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting. Impressive and impactful work team!
Congrats on RRS!

Congrats on RRS!

Congratulations team on your Radiation Research Society talks and posters! Our lab claimed 2 out of the 4 virtual podium talks in the Early Cancer Detection Symposium (https://na.eventscloud.com/website/14445/rrsspeakers20). Congrats Kevin Chen and Paul Jones on your podium presentations! And Bruna’s abstract was selected for a poster presentation. Stellar work!
Congratulations Kevin!

Congratulations Kevin!

Congratulations Kevin Chen for kicking of the NIH Cell-Free Nucleic Acids/Liquid Biopsy Interest Group today with his WebEEx talk on urine cell-free DNA analysis in bladder cancer. Stellar work!
Welcome Steven!

Welcome Steven!

We’re excited to welcome Steven Hartman on-board as a Computational & Systems Biology graduate student rotating collaboratively between our lab and Dr. Christopher Maher’s laboratory. Welcome aboard!
Welcome Noah!

Welcome Noah!

Following a stellar rotation, we’re excited to welcome Noah aboard as our newest member of the lab! Noah is a a WashU MD/PhD (MSTP) student destined to do great things. Welcome to the Chaudhuri lab Noah!