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 evolve starting from histologically normal tissues.

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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 molecular events that allow tumor cells to tolerate and adapt to therapy, using mass spectrometry-based proteomics and with a focus on kinase inhibitors and protein phosphorylation. I helped build new targeted mass spectrometry methods to directly measure oncogenic signaling networks in human tumor biopsies, and I enjoyed teaching mathematical modeling of biochemical systems to MIT undergrads. I also briefly worked on the computational biology team at BioNTech where I contributed to efforts around immuno-oncology target discovery.

Previously, I was a first-gen undergraduate and Goldwater Scholar at the University of Connecticut, where I worked in Pramod Srivastava's lab at UConn's Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center. I also spent some time at NIH's Systems Biology Center in Mark Knepper's lab where I built multi-omic workflows to discover proteins derived from unannotated small open reading frames.

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. You can find media coverage for some of my research at Inside Precision Medicine, MIT News, Medical Xpress, and PNAS Journal Club.