CRI Funded Scientists
CRI invests in the brightest people with the best ideas all around the world.
These current and future scientific leaders in immunology and tumor immunology, from top academic research institutions, are advancing fundamental and applied discoveries that impact cancer research. From bench to bedside, CRI is ushering in the next generation of cancer immunotherapy innovations.
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Judith Agudo, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Ghamdan Al-Eryani, PhD
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hamza Furkan Alkan, PhD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Elise Alspach, PhD
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
CLIP Investigator
Valsamo Anagnostou, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Clinical Accelerator, CLIP Investigator
Hiroyasu Aoki, PhD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anca Apavaloaei, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Manish Ayushman, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Camillia S. Azimi, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hratch Baghdassarian, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gbolahan Bamgbose, PhD
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lauren B. Banks, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Marina Baretti, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Clinical Innovator
Elisabeth M Battinelli, MD, PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
CLIP Investigator
Paul Beavis, PhD
The University of Melbourne (Australia)
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Ondrej Belan, PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hannah Bell, PhD
University of Michigan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Matteo Maria Bellone, MD
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
CLIP Investigator
Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Clinical Innovator
Paolo Bossi, MD
IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital
Clinical Innovator
Rachael Safyan, MD
University of Washington
Clinical Innovator
Adam Blaisdell, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lloyd Bod, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
CLIP Investigator
Jesse Boumelha, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Postdoctoral Fellow
David Braun, MD, PhD
Yale University
CLIP Investigator
Jesusa Capera-Aragones, PhD
University of Oxford
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jesse Garcia Castillo, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Catalina Lee Chang, PhD
Northwestern University
CLIP Investigator
Sidi Chen, PhD
Yale University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Spencer Chen, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Peiwen Chen, PhD
Cleveland Clinic
CLIP Investigator
Sidi Chen, PhD
Yale University
CLIP Investigator
Mark Chong, PhD
St. Vincent’s Hospital Applied Medical Research Institute
Tech Impact Award
Edward Chuong, PhD
University of Colorado at Boulder
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Alberto Ciccia, PhD
Columbia University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Jennifer L. Clarke, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Clinical Innovator
Joseph Collins, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexis Combes, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Tech Impact Award
Guoliang Cui, PhD
Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (China)
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Ang Cui, PhD
Mass General Brigham
Tech Impact Award
Michael Curran, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
CLIP Investigator
Barsha Dash, PhD
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rebecca B. Delconte, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Julio Delgado, MD
Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Spain)
Clinical Innovator
Arpita Desai, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Tech Impact Award
Stanislav Dikiy, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anton Dobrin, PhD
Sunnybrook Research Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Zachary Earley, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Luisa F. Escobar-Hoyos, PhD
Yale University
CLIP Investigator
Inaki Etxeberria, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chiara Falcomatà, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Postdoctoral Fellow
Peter E. Fecci, MD, PhD
Duke University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Samantha Fernandez, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pilar Baldominos Flores, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ryan Flynn, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Liuhui Fu, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Giulia Furesi, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
CLIP Investigator
Francesca Smylie Gazzaniga, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
CLIP Investigator
Samira Ghazali, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nadia Guerra, PhD
Imperial College London
Tech Impact Award
Craig Haifer, PhD
St. Vincent’s Hospital Applied Medical Research Institute
Clinical Innovator
Malay Haldar, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Xue Han, PhD
Ohio State University
CLIP Investigator
Rachel S. Helms, PhD
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Liam Hendrikse, PhD
University Health Network (Canada)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ping-Chih Ho, PhD
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research / University of Lausanne
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Cheryl Ho, MD
Vancouver Cancer Centre
Clinical Accelerator
Linglin Huang, PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rongting Huang, PhD
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Iliyan D. Iliev, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Md Torikul Islam, PhD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD
Columbia University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Amina Jbara, PhD
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mingeum Jeong, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ning Jenny Jiang, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Zhixin Jing, PhD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anusha Kalbasi, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Masakazu Kamata, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Tech Impact Award
Yubin Kang, MD
Duke University
CLIP Investigator
Haydn T. Kissick, PhD
Emory University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Ayano Kohlgruber, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Tech Impact Award
Philip Kranzusch, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Matthew Krummel, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Tech Impact Award
Ilia Kurochkin, PhD
Lund University (Sweden)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Xiang Li, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Katherine Lindblad, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rik G.H. Lindeboom, PhD
The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Tech Impact Award
Enrico Lugli, PhD
Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Helen MacKay, MD
Odette Cancer Centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Clinical Accelerator
Laura Mackay, PhD
The University of Melbourne (Australia)
CLIP Investigator
Andrew MacLean, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Robbie G. Majzner, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Stacy Malaker, PhD
Yale University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Robert Manguso, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Tech Impact Award
Samuel C. Markson, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nicholas Martin, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anukriti Mathur, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Courtney A. Matson, PhD
University of Minnesota
Postdoctoral Fellow
Allison May, MD
University of Virginia
CLIP Investigator
Shannon McGettigan, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral Fellow
Domhnall McHugh, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yifat Merbl, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR, Tech Impact Award
Maxime Meylan, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alessandro Migliara, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Megan S. Molina, PhD
University of Washington
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kat Mueller, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tara Muijlwijk, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kevin Ng, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Norihide Jo, MD, PhD
Chinaemerem U. Onyishi, PhD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Palmeri, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ke Pan, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
CLIP Investigator
Seongyeol Park, MD, PhD
Stanford University
CRI Dr. Keith Landesman Memorial Immuno-Informatics Fellow
Tyler Park, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Parasvi Patel, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Karin Pelka, PhD
The J. David Gladstone Institutes
Tech Impact Award
Filipe Pereira, PhD
Lund University (Sweden)
CLIP Investigator
Xiong Pi, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Josep Maria M. Piulats, MD, PhD
Fundacio Institut D’Investigacio Biomedica de Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet del Llobregat
CLIP Investigator
Luke Postoak, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maryam Pourmaleki, PhD
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Daniel Puleston, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Tech Impact Award
Rajat Punia, PhD
Cornell University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anna Ralser, MD, PhD
Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fiona Raso, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kole T. Roybal, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Marco Ruella, MD
University of Pennsylvania
CLIP Investigator
Brian Ruffell, PhD
Moffitt Cancer Center
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Ayana T. Ruffin, PhD
Emory University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ansuman T. Satpathy, MD, PhD
Stanford University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Mark A. Sellmyer, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Debattama Sen, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Tech Impact Award
Raymond Shim, PhD
University of Calgary
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bilal A. Siddiqui, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Clinical Innovator
Felipe Silva Rodrigues, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maria Sirenko, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Craig L. Slingluff, Jr., MD
University of Virginia Health System
CLIP Investigator
Matija Snuderl, MD
New York University School of Medicine
CLIP Investigator
Matthew H. Spitzer, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Harrison Sudholz, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow
Linyu Sun, PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Thornton W. Thompson, PhD
University of Washington
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anna Tinker, MD
Vancouver Cancer Centre
Clinical Accelerator
Giorgio Trinchieri, MD
National Cancer Institute
CLIP Investigator
Ahmet Bugra Tufan, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Aldo Ummarino, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nicolas Vabret, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
CLIP Investigator
Vivek Verma, PhD
University of Minnesota
CLIP Investigator
Rosa Vincent, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil
University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center
Clinical Accelerator
Allon Wagner, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Tech Impact Award
Peter Wang, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
CRI Dr. Keith Landesman Memorial Fellow
Kristen Witt, PhD
University of Washington
Postdoctoral Fellow
Man Wu, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tuoqi Wu, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Yun Xia, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kai Kun Xie, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kai Xu, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yi Yang, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nader Yatim, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ahmad Yatim, MD, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jianhang Yin, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dmitriy Zamarin, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Clinical Accelerator
Ivan Zanoni, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Roberta Zappasodi, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
CLIP Investigator
Haiwei Zhang, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jing Zhang, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ze Zhang, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yang Zhao, PhD
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow