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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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

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

Ondrej Belan, PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow

Hannah Bell, PhD
University of Michigan
Postdoctoral Fellow

Adam Blaisdell, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow

Jesse Boumelha, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Postdoctoral Fellow

Jesusa Capera-Aragones, PhD
University of Oxford
Postdoctoral Fellow

Jesse Garcia Castillo, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow

Spencer Chen, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow

Joseph Collins, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow

Barsha Dash, PhD
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Postdoctoral Fellow

Rebecca B. Delconte, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Inaki Etxeberria, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow

Chiara Falcomatà, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Postdoctoral Fellow

Samantha Fernandez, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow

Pilar Baldominos Flores, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow

Liuhui Fu, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow

Giulia Furesi, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow

Samira Ghazali, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow

Rachel S. Helms, PhD
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Postdoctoral Fellow

Liam Hendrikse, PhD
University Health Network (Canada)
Postdoctoral Fellow

Linglin Huang, PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow

Rongting Huang, PhD
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow

Md Torikul Islam, PhD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Postdoctoral Fellow

Amina Jbara, PhD
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow

Mingeum Jeong, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow

Zhixin Jing, PhD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Postdoctoral Fellow

Nicholas F Kuhn, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Andrew MacLean, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Shannon McGettigan, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral Fellow

Domhnall McHugh, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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

Tyler Park, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow

Parasvi Patel, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow

Xiong Pi, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow

Luke Postoak, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow

Maryam Pourmaleki, PhD
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Ayana T. Ruffin, PhD
Emory University
Postdoctoral Fellow

Raymond Shim, PhD
University of Calgary
Postdoctoral Fellow

Felipe Silva Rodrigues, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow

Maria Sirenko, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Ahmet Bugra Tufan, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow

Aldo Ummarino, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow

Rosa Vincent, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow

Kristen Witt, PhD
University of Washington
Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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

Jing Zhang, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Postdoctoral Fellow

Haiwei Zhang, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow

Ze Zhang, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow

Yang Zhao, PhD
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow