My name is Cameron – I'm a researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, where I work as a postdoc in the labs of Leonard Zon and Franziska Michor.
I'm interested in the biology of early tumorigenesis; I work to improve our understanding of how precancerous fields and lesions gradually evolve into cancerous tumors, using zebrafish as a model system due to their transparent skin and accessible embryos for mosaic genetic engineering. My goal is to help us realize a future where most cancers can be eliminated before they become life-threatening.
My PhD work at MIT focused on understanding how kinase-addicted cancers resist therapy and on building new tools to analyze molecular pathways and dependencies in patient tumor samples. I use a variety of cutting-edge experimental tools including live imaging, synthetic biology, and mass spectrometry, and enjoy coupling information from these tools with principled mathematical and statistical modeling to tackle fundamental questions in cancer biology.