News
January 2026
The lab is honored to receive funding from the W.M. Keck Foundation. This research, as described in the published abstract, will explore design principles for engineering non-immune cells with targeted immune functions to enable novel therapeutic strategies for cancer.
December 2025
Jun Kim receives an Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Cancer Research Institute!
September 2025
The lab receives funding from the Weill Cancer Hub West as part of Project FEAST, led by Rushika Perera (UCSF) and Jon Long (Stanford).
July 2025
Welcome to Ashley Tonthat (Junior Specialist), Thanos Syntrivanis (Junior Specialist), and Jiyu Beak (visiting undergraduate)!
July 2025
Congratulations and farewell to Alex Morse, matriculating to Northwestern for her PhD!
June 2025
Madeline McCanne and Trishna Patel pass their qualifying exams!
June 2025
Welcome to Alvin Ha and Shania Garrison (BMS PhD students), who are starting their thesis work in the lab!
April 2025
Congratulations and farewell to Dillon Pang, matriculating to Loyola Stritch Medical School!
December 2024
The lab is honored to receive the "Jack's Pack — We Still Have His Back" St. Baldrick's Research Grant for work on pediatric lymphoma.
October 2024
The lab receives an award from Yosemite and American Cancer Society.
August 2024
The lab receives an NIH/NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award.
August 2024
Welcome Jun Kim (postdoctoral fellow, previously UC Berkeley/HHMI, Dernburg Lab)!
July 2024
Welcome Trishna Patel (BMS PhD student, previously UCSF Brain Tumor Center)!
July 2024
Roarke is named a 2024 Searle Scholar.
June 2024
Welcome Sonal Joshi (postdoctoral fellow, previously Benvenuti Lab, ICGEB Trieste), Madeline McCanne (BMS PhD student, previously Cornell and MGH), and Annika Bai (summer intern via Emerson Collective First-Gen Intern program)!
April 2024
The lab receives funding from the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Hevolution Foundation.
January 2024
Welcome Jinglin Zhu (postdoctoral fellow, previously Huang Lab, Chinese Academy of Sciences)!
January 2024
The lab receives a New Frontiers Award from the Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research.
December 2023
The lab receives a Longevity Impetus grant.
October 2023
Welcome Ariana Sanchez (postdoctoral fellow, previously Genentech; PhD from Feldman Lab, Stanford)!
July 2023
The lab receives funding from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation and the Glenn Foundation/AFAR, the UCSF Liver Center, and the CRISPR Cures for Cancer Initiative.
September 2023
Welcome Dillon Pang (Junior Specialist); Madeline McCanne starts her BMS rotation!
May 2023
Welcome Alex Morse (Junior Specialist), An Nguyen, Manu Prabandham, and Meredith Fenyo (undergraduate researchers)!
April 2023
The lab receives R00 funding from NCI!
April 2023
The Kamber Lab opens at UCSF!