News 2023

September

Event: Single Cell Mapping in Development & Cancer
September 18, 2023, NYU Langone Health

June

Press release: Drug Combination Restores Ability of Leading Treatment to Signal for Death of Blood Cancer Cells
NYU Langone Health

March

Press release: Researchers Identify Key Source of T Cell “Exhaustion”
Dana Farber

Press release: Inflammation Levels Tied to Severity of Blood Cancer
NYU Langone Health

News 2022

August

Francesco Boccalatte has left our lab. He is moving back to Italy and the Padova University to start his independent career and lab, supported by Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC).

May

Anna Yeaton and Geraldine Cayanan have successfully defended their PhD theses! Congratulations!

Our laboratory was awarded grants by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and Curing Kids Cancer!

March

Matt Witkowski left the lab. He is now an Assistant Professor at University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus expanding his research on leukemia microenvironment. Congrats Matt!!

January

Juan Carlos Balandran,  Olha Ivashkiv and Antonia Chroni join the team. Welcome!!

Maria Guillamot-Ruano is leaving the team. She is now a Senior Principal Scientist at Loxo Oncology at Lilly. Congrats Maria!

News 2021

Eric‘s paper on CRISPR screening of AML differentiation is published on Cell Stem Cell. Congrats!!

Varvara and Anna join the lab as new postdoctoral fellows. Welcome!

Kate Hockemeyer defended her Ph.D. dissertation on May 25th. Congrats Kate, amazing job!

Raja‘s paper on the role of Valine tRNA in leukemia is published in Nature! Congrats!!

Francesco is awarded a Start-Up grant from the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC). Congrats!!

 

News 2020

Elena joins the lab coming from EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). Welcome to the team!

Christina Glystou is the proud recipient of an NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)

Anastasia Tikhonova is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Click here

Jochen Imig is now a Group Leader at the Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society Click here

Eric Wang is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at MSKCC (Abdel-Wahab Lab) Click here

Congrats to Andreas and Raja for their Cover Article at Nature Genetics Click here

Congrats to Matt and Igor for their Cover Article at Cancer Cell Click here

Congrats Anastasia, Audrey and Rebecca for an impressive and comprehensive review of the single cell stem cell field at Cell Stem Cell Click here

News 2019

September
Congratulations to Raja – ALSF/NM Young Investigator fellowship!

August
Welcoming new member to the lab! Our new post-doc, Rebecca!

May
Congrats Xufeng and Christina on their work being published in Cancer Discovery on targeting mitochondria structure in Venetoclax resistant AML!Click here

April
Congrats Anastasia and Igor on their work being published in Nature on single-cell analysis of the bone marrow microenvironment! Click here

March

Congrats Eric on publishing his work on RBPs in leukemia at Cancer Cell and making the cover of this month’s issue!Check out Eric’s work here

Welcome new members to the lab! Our new post-doc, Audrey and Master students Marina and Krysten!

News 2018

November

The Aifantis Lab is turning 15 years old! Come and celebrate with us this special day on Friday November 9th in the new Science Building at NYU Langone Health.

We will host a great round of speakers and alumni sharing their recent discoveries in leukemia research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


August

Nikos and Harris make the cover of this month’s issue of Nature Medicine with a seminal paper showing how oncogenes control stress response in T-cell acute leukemia.

Congrats!! (and nice artwork too).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April

Congrats Yoon on successfully defending his thesis!

February

This month’s newsletter from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation features Iannis for being awarded an innovation grant /  research accelerator program

(https://www.alexslemonade.org/grantee/iannis-aifantis-phd-0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January

The start of the new year is bringing many changes to our lab:

– Dr. Christina Glytsou is joining the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. She has received her PhD training in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Padova and the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine under the supervision of prof. Scorrano. Welcome Christina!!

– Dr. Aranda-Orgilles is now a project leader at Cellectis, developing new immunotherapy approaches to treat cancer patients.

– Dr. Lazaris is now a postdoctoral scholar at the Gruber lab at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center / USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California.

Congrats to Bea and Harris! We wish you the best for your future careers.

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News 2017

December
– Congratulations Dr. Lazaris on successfully defending his PhD thesis on the computational dissection of TADs in leukemia!

October
– Great article here on Dr. Jane Skok’s work on chromatin looping and our joint Aifantis/Skok lab collaborations at NYU!

August
– Congrats Luisa on her Cell paper! To hear about her story on TET2 and Vitamin C in leukemia click here or below to listen to the Cell Paperclip! Also watch the video release by NYU Langone here.

– Anastasia Tikhonova is on the news! Leukemia and Lymphoma Society: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: CELEBRATING WOMEN IN SCIENCE. For more information, please follow the link: Women in science

May

Francesco Boccalatte and Anastasia Tikhonova have been both awarded a Young Investigator Grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer for two independent projects. Congrats!!

January

– Matthew Witkowski has been selected as a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar.

– Beatriz Aranda-Orgilles has been selected as a Senior Kimmel Scholar.

Congratulations Matt and Bea!

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News 2015

– Francesco Boccalatte is joining the lab as post-doctoral fellow. He is supported by a fellowship from the American-Italian Cancer Foundation.

– Bryan King has moved to C.Thompson Lab at MSKCC, as a post-doc. We wish him best of luck.

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News 2014

– Camille Lobry is starting his career as an independent investigator at The Institut Gustave-Roussy, Paris, France.

– Jie Gao moved to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals where she will continue her research career.

– Thomas and Panos had their papers accepted at Cell and Nature.

– Bryan King is now a doctor as he graduated in May.