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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Merve Deniz Abdusselamoglu, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow
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
Anca Apavaloaei, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Camillia S. Azimi, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hratch Baghdassarian, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
Alexandra Q. Bartlett, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University
Postdoctoral Fellow
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
Hannah Bell, PhD
University of Michigan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Matteo Maria Bellone, MD
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
CLIP Investigator
Tamar Lea Ben Shaanan, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
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
Judith Bovee, MD, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center (Netherlands)
CLIP Investigator
Nadav Brandes, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joshua D. Brody, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Jesusa Capera-Aragones, PhD
University of Oxford
Postdoctoral Fellow
Andrea B. Castro, PhD
University College London
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
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
Guoliang Cui, PhD
Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (China)
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Tal Danino, PhD
Columbia University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
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
Greg M. Delgoffe, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Stanislav Dikiy, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Brianna Duncan-Lowey, PhD
Yale University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gavin Peter Dunn, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
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
Rita Leonor Fior, PhD
Champalimaud Foundation (Portugal)
Tech Impact Award
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
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
Xin He, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rachel S. Helms, PhD
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Liam Hendrikse, PhD
University Health Network (Canada)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Michelle L. Hess, PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
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
William H. Hudson, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Tech Impact Award
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
Thomas Jackson, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mingeum Jeong, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ning Jenny Jiang, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Susan M. Kaech, PhD
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
CLIP Investigator
Masakazu Kamata, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Tech Impact Award
Samantha B Kemp, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral Fellow
Haydn T. Kissick, PhD
Emory University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Philip Kranzusch, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Nicholas F Kuhn, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ilia Kurochkin, PhD
Lund University (Sweden)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Emanuele Lettera, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Xiang Li, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chang Liao, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
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
Amanda Lund, PhD
New York University Medical Center
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Helen MacKay, MD
Odette Cancer Centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Clinical Accelerator
Robbie G. Majzner, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Stacy Malaker, PhD
Yale University
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Samuel C. Markson, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Thomas Urban Marron, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Clinical Innovator
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
Domhnall McHugh, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Claire L. McIntyre, PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Christopher B. Medina, PhD
Emory University
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
Alexandra G. Moyzis, PhD
Salk Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kat Mueller, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kevin Ng, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Xiaohan Ning, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Norihide Jo, MD, PhD
Chinaemerem U. Onyishi, PhD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Postdoctoral Fellow
David L. Owen, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Palmeri, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sara Martina Parigi, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Seongyeol Park, MD, PhD
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Parasvi Patel, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Karin Pelka, PhD
The J. David Gladstone Institutes
Tech Impact Award
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
Bruce W. Robinson, MD, PhD
Tech Impact Award
Samuel A. Rose, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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
Andrea Schietinger, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Mark A. Sellmyer, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Lewis Zhichang Shi, MD, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
CLIP Investigator
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
Kellie N. Smith, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
Matija Snuderl, MD
New York University School of Medicine
CLIP Investigator
Gregory F. Sonnenberg, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR
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
Ahmet Bugra Tufan, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Aldo Ummarino, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Aaron van Loon, PhD
University of Washington
Postdoctoral Fellow
Vivek Verma, PhD
University of Minnesota
CLIP Investigator
Alejandro V. Villagra, PhD
Georgetown University
CLIP Investigator
Rosa Vincent, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil
University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center
Clinical Accelerator
Peter Wang, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Xiaoyang Wu, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Tech Impact Award
Man Wu, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yun Xia, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kai Kun Xie, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science
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
Qiming Zhang, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Qilin Zhang, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
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