The Wood Lab welcomes Kerry Dillon, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, who is joining the lab for her Ph.D. in Molecular Cancer Biology!
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Kris Wood, Ph.D. (CV)
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, MIT, 2007
Postdoctoral fellowship, Whitehead Institute / Broad Institute, 2007-2012
Hometown: Georgetown, KY
Laura Youngblood
Staff Assistant
B.A., Dramatic Arts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020
Hometown: New Orleans, LA
Kerry Dillon
Graduate Student
B.S., Biology, B.A., Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2015
Hometown: Yardley, PA
Congratulations to Shane Killarney and colleagues on the publication of a study in Nature Communications describing the discovery of a mitochondrial RNA-MDA5-MAVS-IRF3 signaling pathway, regulated by executioner caspases, whose therapeutic activation drives anti-tumor immunity!
Ava Heffernan
Research Technician
B.S., Biology, UNC-Greensboro, 2022
Hometown: Hillsborough, NC
Congratulations to Mike Lidsky and team on this work describing models of FGFR2-G3BP2 fusion-driven intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma!
Congratulations to first authors Kevin Lin and Justine Rutter, co-senior author Alex Puissant, and our many colleagues on the publication of a study in Nature Cancer describing our discovery of selinexor-induced AKT activation in AML. We hope that these results will translate to the clinic soon!
Congratulations to first author Moiez Ali and colleagues at Duke, MSKCC, UCSF, and Harvard on the publication of a study in Science Translational Medicine describing our discovery of an ATM dependency in residual tumor cells!
Michael Aiduk
M.D./Ph.D. Student
B.S., Biochemistry, Syracuse University, 2018
Hometown: Sagamore Beach, MA
