
Mara Sherman Lab
@marashermanlab
Cancer biologist @MSKCancerCenter
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https://www.mskcc.org/research/ski/labs/mara-sherman 25-11-2018 19:32:16
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The Washington Post Thank you for including us in the Next 50 list with so many inspiring changemakers. This recognition reflects the hard work of our amazing team & colleagues Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Together, we aim to develop new vaccines & treatments for pancreatic and other cancers!




I am so excited to be selected as one of the recipients of the Michelson Prize from the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project! This award enables our lab's research at the intersection of systems immunology, virology, and large-scale genomics research.


A bright light amid the darkness today - congratulations Yael David and all authors! Beautiful work, exciting science! ✨

The final #OpenAccess version of Mara Sherman Lab recent paper is now available on Cancer Discovery Stromal KITL/SCF Maintains Pancreas Tissue Homeostasis and Restrains Tumor Progression aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscover…


Welcome to Houston Mara Sherman Lab! So glad you could visit the MD Anderson Cancer Center crew. Aria Vaishnavi, PhD Sara Zanivan Gigi Lozano, PhD


🔥Smoking hot new paper and tweetorial from Caleb Cheng (collab with Arul Chinnaiyan)! 🔥 We are over the moon about this new work and its therapeutic implications for pancreatic cancer. Please have a read and share your thoughts/feedback! 🙏🏼

🤠 👉🏽 🗽 news: I will be joining NYU Langone Health on September 1, 2025 as Director of the GI Cancer Center & Associate Director of Translational Research at Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health. I am excited to start the next chapter of the Maitra Lab in NYC & build a strong GI cancer research program.

Our latest work, led by Benjamin Jackson and Angela Montero Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center demonstrates how intracellular metabolic gradients induce dependence on exogenous pyruvate in embryonic stem cells


Yes! This is another Cancer Discovery seminal study by the amazing Mara Sherman Lab Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and her terrific team & colleagues. Check out this commentary about it by yours truly aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscover…

Very excited that our paper on how breast cancer impacts granulopoieses is Cancer Cell Fantastic teamwork with the lab of Elzo de Wit deWitLab spearheaded by talented postdoc Hannah Garner (now jr groupleader at McGill) and PhD student Moreno Martinovic The Netherlands Cancer Institute Oncode Institute


In the Spotlight: FABP4-tastic Pancreatic Stellate Cells Coddle KITL to Uphold Inherent Microenvironmental Tumor Suppression brnw.ch/21wSCgB By Aleksandr Dolskii and Dr. Edna Cukierman, Ph.D. at Fox Chase Cancer Center



Congratulations to Ruth Shouval and all authors for this beautiful and suuuper nicely done study showing a new (and perhaps targetable) way CAFs suppress anti-tumor immunity in breast cancer! 🤩

I'm excited to share the lab’s new paper on PDAC-associated cachexia on bioRxiv today, led by star postdoc Nikita Bhalerao, PhD Pancreatic cancer cachexia is mediated by PTHrP-driven disruption of adipose de novo lipogenesis A 🧵 below, if you're interested... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
