My name is Cam – 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 tumorigenesis, and am currently working on a few projects aimed at improving our understanding of how tumors develop and evolve.
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As a PhD student and Ludwig Center Graduate Fellow in Forest White's lab at MIT's Koch Institute, I studied the signaling pathways that allow tumor cells to tolerate and adapt to kinase inhibitor therapies using mass spectrometry-based proteomics, and helped build new targeted mass spectrometry methods to directly measure oncogenic signaling networks in human tumor biopsies. I enjoyed teaching mathematical modeling of biochemical systems to MIT undergrads, and I briefly worked on the computational biology team at BioNTech where I contributed to immuno-oncology efforts.
Previously, I was a first-gen undergraduate and Goldwater Scholar at the University of Connecticut, where I worked in Pramod Srivastava's lab at the Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center. I interned at NIH in Mark Knepper's lab where I built new integrative methods to identify microproteins in renal tissue.
My current work is supported by a fellowship from the Department of Data Science and the Center for Cancer Evolution at Dana-Farber, and I am affiliated with Harvard's departments of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Biostatistics.