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Welcome, Alex!
The lab welcomes Alex Kruswick, a graduate student in Biology at MIT. Alex joins us from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied biochemistry. He will be working on DNA damage signaling and mechanisms of repair.
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Yaffe/ Floyd/ Hammond lab collaboration published: using targeted nanoparticles to fight brain tumors
May 18, 2018 | Nature Communications
Read coverage by MIT News and Nature Nanotechnology News & Views
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Farewell BBQ for Sanjeev and Tu-Lan
May 10, 2018
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New study from the Yaffe Lab offers novel insight into colon cancer development
April 16, 2018 | PNAS
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Michael Yaffe heads the MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine
February 1, 2018 | MIT News
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Yaffe lab group costume at the 2017 KI retreat Halloween party
November 6, 2017
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Michael Yaffe receives NIH R35 outstanding investigator award
September 19, 2017 | MIT News
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Solutions with/in/sight: Masterclass with Michael Yaffe
November 2, 2016 | Koch Institute
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2015 KI retreat Halloween party
November 2, 2015
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Our latest paper is out: “A Pleiotropic RNA-Binding Protein Controls Distinct Cell Cycle Checkpoints to Drive Resistance of p53-Defective Tumors to Chemotherapy”
October 22, 2015 | Cancer Cell
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Stand up faculty
October 8, 2015
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2015 Yaffe lab outing – paintball fun
Summer 2015
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2014 KI retreat Halloween party
November 3, 2014
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“A nanoparticle-based combination chemotherapy delivery system for enhanced tumor killing by dynamic rewiring of signaling pathway”
May 8, 2014 | Science Signaling
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Fun in the snow
March 20, 2014