Thales Papagiannakopoulos, PhD

Professor

Salk Institute for Biological Studies - Publications

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Chang, W.H., Vaughan, A.J., Stamey, A.G., Mancini, M., Hayashi, M., Yang, R., Robb, R., Andrussier, D., Klomp, J.A., Waters, A.M., Schaefer, A., Wolpin, B.M., Bryant, K.L., Cox, A.D., Simabuco, F.M., Wong, K.K., Aguirre, A.J., Stalnecker, C.A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Der, C.J. Characterization and therapeutic suppression of KEAP1-NRF2-driven resistance to KRAS inhibitors in pancreatic and lung cancer. (2026) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.18.719329

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Pillai, R., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Hao, Y., Wu, W.L., Mancini, M.C.S., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Dimitriadoy, S.G., Cross, M., Yeaton, A.H., Huang, S.M., Bhutkar, A., Herrera, A.M., Rajalingam, S., Hayashi, M., Huang, K.L., Bartnicki, E., Zavitsanou, A.M., Ivanova, E., Wohlhieter, C., LeBoeuf, S.E., Chen, T., Loomis, C.A., Kulicke, R., Davis, F.P., Stransky, N., Smolen, G.A., Tsay, J.J., Simabuco, F.M., Rudin, C.M., Moreira, A.L., Khanna, K.M., Pass, H.I., Wong, K.K., Koide, S., Tsirigos, A., Koralov, S.B., Papagiannakopoulos, T. LIF-Induced Tumor Plasticity Establishes an Immunosuppressive Myeloid Niche in LKB1-Mutant Lung Cancer. (2026) Cancer Discovery.:OF1-OF20 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-25-0470

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Vaughan, A.J., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Drowning in cysteine. (2026) Nat Metab. 8(4):765-767. DOI: 10.1038/s42255-026-01511-1


Patel, A.A.H., Dzanan, J.J., Ali, K.X., Eklund, E.A., Alvarez, S.W., Raj, D., Dankis, M., Altinönder, I., Schwarz, M., Le Gal, K., Bedel, E., El Zowalaty, A.E., Jonasson, E., Albatrok, H., Gul, N., Bossowski, J.P., Pillai, R., Micke, P., Botling, J., Akyürek, L.M., Angeletti, D., Sayin, S.I., Härtlova, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Olofsson Bagge, R., Ståhlberg, A., Hallqvist, A., Wiel, C., Sayin, V.I. Ageing promotes metastasis via activation of the integrated stress response. (2026) Nature. 652(8112):1339-1348. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10216-0

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Bossowski, J.P., Pillai, R., Kilian, J., Wong Lau, A., Nakamura, M., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Hao, Y., Li, R., Wu, K., Hattori, T., Glasser, E., Koide, A., Wang, L., Moreira, A.L., Hajdu, C., Rajalingam, S., LeBoeuf, S.E., Le, H., Lee, S., Oh, J.W., Joe, C., Kim, H., Ock, C.Y., Lee, S.H., Wang, H., Patel, A.A.H., Sayin, V.I., Tsirigos, A., Wong, K.K., Koralov, S.B., Pende, M., Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Simeone, D.M., Zervantonakis, I.K., Koide, S., Papagiannakopoulos, T. The integrated stress response promotes immune evasion through lipocalin 2. (2026) Nature. 652(8112):1329-1338. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10143-0

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Vaughan, A.J., Palma, M., Ubellacker, J.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Ferroptosis surveillance: Insights from in vivo contexts. (2026) Ferroptosis Oxid Stress. 2(3). DOI: 10.70401/fos.2026.0021

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Wu, K., Vaughan, A.J., Bossowski, J.P., Hao, Y., Ziogou, A., Kim, S.M., Kim, T.H., Nakamura, M.N., Pillai, R., Mancini, M., Rajalingam, S., Han, M., Nakamura, T., Wang, L., Chung, S., Simeone, D., Shackelford, D., Kang, Y.P., Conrad, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Targeting FSP1 triggers ferroptosis in lung cancer. (2026) Nature. 649(8096):487-495. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09710-8

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Wu, K., Vaughan, A.J., Bossowski, J.P., Hao, Y., Ziogou, A., Kim, S.M., Kim, T.H., Nakamura, M.N., Pillai, R., Mancini, M., Rajalingam, S., Han, M., Nakamura, T., Wang, L., Chung, S., Simeone, D., Shackelford, D., Kang, Y.P., Conrad, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Targeting FSP1 triggers ferroptosis in lung cancer. (2025) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.07.668766

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Cattle, M.A., Aguado, L.C., Sze, S., Venkittu, S., Wang, Y., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Smith, S., Rice, C.M., Schneider, W.M., Poirier, J.T. An enhanced Eco1 retron editor enables precision genome engineering in human cells without double-strand breaks. (2025) Nucleic Acids Research. 53(14). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaf716

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Varghese, A., Gusarov, I., Gamallo-Lana, B., Dolgonos, D., Mankan, Y., Shamovsky, I., Phan, M., Jones, R., Gomez-Jenkins, M., White, E., Wang, R., Jones, D.R., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pacold, M.E., Mar, A.C., Littman, D.R., Nudler, E. Unravelling cysteine-deficiency-associated rapid weight loss. (2025) Nature. 643(8072):776-784. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08996-y

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Cattle, M.A., Aguado, L.C., Sze, S., Venkittu, S., Wang, D.Y., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Smith, S., Rice, C.M., Schneider, W.M., Poirier, J.T. An enhanced Eco1 retron editor enables precision genome engineering in human cells without double-strand breaks. (2025) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.05.606586

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Guzelsoy, G., Elorza, S.D., Ros, M., Schachtner, L.T., Hayashi, M., Hobson-Gutierrez, S., Rundstrom, P., Brunner, J.S., Pillai, R., Walkowicz, W.E., Finley, L.W.S., Deforet, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Carmona-Fontaine, C. Cooperative nutrient scavenging is an evolutionary advantage in cancer. (2025) Nature. 640(8058):534-542. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08588-w

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Cross, M., Dillin, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Bridging brain and body in cancer. (2024) Genes & Development. 38(17-20):814-816. DOI: 10.1101/gad.352300.124

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Berndt, C., Alborzinia, H., Amen, V.S., Ayton, S., Barayeu, U., Bartelt, A., Bayir, H., Bebber, C.M., Birsoy, K., Böttcher, J.P., Brabletz, S., Brabletz, T., Brown, A.R., Brüne, B., Bulli, G., Bruneau, A., Chen, Q., DeNicola, G.M., Dick, T.P., Distéfano, A., Dixon, S.J., Engler, J.B., Esser-von Bieren, J., Fedorova, M., Friedmann Angeli, J.P., Friese, M.A., Fuhrmann, D.C., García-Sáez, A.J., Garbowicz, K., Götz, M., Gu, W., Hammerich, L., Hassannia, B., Jiang, X., Jeridi, A., Kang, Y.P., Kagan, V.E., Konrad, D.B., Kotschi, S., Lei, P., Le Tertre, M., Lev, S., Liang, D., Linkermann, A., Lohr, C., Lorenz, S., Luedde, T., Methner, A., Michalke, B., Milton, A.V., Min, J., Mishima, E., Müller, S., Motohashi, H., Muckenthaler, M.U., Murakami, S., Olzmann, J.A., Pagnussat, G., Pan, Z., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pedrera Puentes, L., Pratt, D.A., Proneth, B., Ramsauer, L., Rodriguez, R., Saito, Y., Schmidt, F., Schmitt, C., Schulze, A., Schwab, A., Schwantes, A., Soula, M., Spitzlberger, B., Stockwell, B.R., Thewes, L., Thorn-Seshold, O., Toyokuni, S., Tonnus, W., Trumpp, A., Vandenabeele, P., Vanden Berghe, T., Venkataramani, V., Vogel, F.C.E., von Karstedt, S., Wang, F., Westermann, F., Wientjens, C., Wilhelm, C., Wölk, M., Wu, K., Yang, X., Yu, F., Zou, Y., Conrad, M. Ferroptosis in health and disease. (2024) Redox Biol. 75:103211. DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2024.103211

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Varghese, A., Gusarov, I., Gamallo-Lana, B., Dolgonos, D., Mankan, Y., Shamovsky, I., Phan, M., Jones, R., Gomez-Jenkins, M., White, E., Wang, R., Jones, D., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pacold, M.E., Mar, A.C., Littman, D.R., Nudler, E. Unraveling cysteine deficiency-associated rapid weight loss. (2024) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.30.605703

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França, G.S., Baron, M., King, B.R., Bossowski, J.P., Bjornberg, A., Pour, M., Rao, A., Patel, A.S., Misirlioglu, S., Barkley, D., Tang, K.H., Dolgalev, I., Liberman, D.A., Avital, G., Kuperwaser, F., Chiodin, M., Levine, D.A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Marusyk, A., Lionnet, T., Yanai, I. Cellular adaptation to cancer therapy along a resistance continuum. (2024) Nature. 631(8022):876-883. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07690-9

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Pillai, R., LeBoeuf, S.E., Hao, Y., New, C., Blum, J.L.E., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Huang, S.M., Bahamon, C., Wu, W.L., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Herrera, A., Ivanova, E., Cross, M., Bossowski, J.P., Ding, H., Hayashi, M., Rajalingam, S., Karakousi, T., Sayin, V.I., Khanna, K.M., Wong, K.K., Wild, R., Tsirigos, A., Poirier, J.T., Rudin, C.M., Davidson, S.M., Koralov, S.B., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Glutamine antagonist DRP-104 suppresses tumor growth and enhances response to checkpoint blockade in KEAP1 mutant lung cancer. (2024) Science Advances. 10(13):eadm9859. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adm9859

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Wu, K., El Zowalaty, A.E., Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T. The pleiotropic functions of reactive oxygen species in cancer. (2024) Nat Cancer. 5(3):384-399. DOI: 10.1038/s43018-024-00738-9

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Ge, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Bar-Peled, L. Reductive stress in cancer: coming out of the shadows. (2024) Trends in Cancer. 10(2):103-112. DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2023.10.002

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Karagiannis, D., Wu, W., Li, A., Hayashi, M., Chen, X., Yip, M., Mangipudy, V., Xu, X., Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Soto-Feliciano, Y.M., Ye, J., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Lu, C. Metabolic reprogramming by histone deacetylase inhibition preferentially targets NRF2-activated tumors. (2024) Cell Reports. 43(1):113629. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113629

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Dolgalev, I., Zhou, H., Murrell, N., Le, H., Sakellaropoulos, T., Coudray, N., Zhu, K., Vasudevaraja, V., Yeaton, A., Goparaju, C., Li, Y., Sulaiman, I., Tsay, J.J., Meyn, P., Mohamed, H., Sydney, I., Shiomi, T., Ramaswami, S., Narula, N., Kulicke, R., Davis, F.P., Stransky, N., Smolen, G.A., Cheng, W.Y., Cai, J., Punekar, S., Velcheti, V., Sterman, D.H., Poirier, J.T., Neel, B., Wong, K.K., Chiriboga, L., Heguy, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Nadorp, B., Snuderl, M., Segal, L.N., Moreira, A.L., Pass, H.I., Tsirigos, A. Inflammation in the tumor-adjacent lung as a predictor of clinical outcome in lung adenocarcinoma. (2023) Nature Communications. 14(1):6764. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42327-x

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Zavitsanou, A.M., Pillai, R., Hao, Y., Wu, W.L., Bartnicki, E., Karakousi, T., Rajalingam, S., Herrera, A., Karatza, A., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Solis, S., Ciampricotti, M., Yeaton, A.H., Ivanova, E., Wohlhieter, C.A., Buus, T.B., Hayashi, M., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Pass, H.I., Poirier, J.T., Rudin, C.M., Wong, K.K., Moreira, A.L., Khanna, K.M., Tsirigos, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Koralov, S.B. KEAP1 mutation in lung adenocarcinoma promotes immune evasion and immunotherapy resistance. (2023) Cell Reports. 42(11):113295. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113295

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Schraink, T., Blumenberg, L., Hussey, G., George, S., Miller, B., Mathew, N., González-Robles, T.J., Sviderskiy, V., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Possemato, R., Fenyö, D., Ruggles, K.V. PhosphoDisco: A Toolkit for Co-regulated Phosphorylation Module Discovery in Phosphoproteomic Data. (2023) Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 22(8):100596. DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100596

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Rashidfarrokhi, A., Pillai, R., Hao, Y., Wu, W.L., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Dimitriadoy, S.G., Cross, M., Yeaton, A.H., Huang, S.M., Bhutkar, A.J., Herrera, A., Rajalingam, S., Hayashi, M., Huang, K.L., Bartnicki, E., Zavitsanou, A.M., Wohlhieter, C.A., Leboeuf, S.E., Chen, T., Loomis, C., Mezzano, V., Kulicke, R., Davis, F.P., Stransky, N., Smolen, G.A., Rudin, C.M., Moreira, A.L., Khanna, K.M., Pass, H.I., Wong, K.K., Koide, S., Tsirigos, A., Koralov, S.B., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Tumor-intrinsic LKB1-LIF signaling axis establishes a myeloid niche to promote immune evasion and tumor growth. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.15.549147

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Pillai, R., LeBoeuf, S.E., Hao, Y., New, C., Blum, J.L.E., Rashidfarrokhi, A., Huang, S.M., Bahamon, C., Wu, W.L., Karadal-Ferrena, B., Herrera, A., Ivanova, E., Cross, M., Bossowski, J.P., Ding, H., Hayashi, M., Rajalingam, S., Karakousi, T., Sayin, V.I., Khanna, K.M., Wong, K.K., Wild, R., Tsirigos, A., Poirier, J.T., Rudin, C.M., Davidson, S.M., Koralov, S.B., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Glutamine antagonist DRP-104 suppresses tumor growth and enhances response to checkpoint blockade in KEAP1 mutant lung cancer. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.27.546750

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Zhong, H., Lu, W., Tang, Y., Wiel, C., Wei, Y., Cao, J., Riedlinger, G., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Guo, J.Y., Bergo, M.O., Kang, Y., Ganesan, S., Sabaawy, H.E., Pine, S.R. SOX9 drives KRAS-induced lung adenocarcinoma progression and suppresses anti-tumor immunity. (2023) Oncogene. 42(27):2183-2194. DOI: 10.1038/s41388-023-02715-5

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Karagiannis, D., Wu, W., Li, A., Hayashi, M., Chen, X., Yip, M., Mangipudy, V., Xu, X., Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Soto-Feliciano, Y.M., Ye, J., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Lu, C. Metabolic Reprogramming by Histone Deacetylase Inhibition Selectively Targets NRF2-activated tumors. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.24.538118

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Deng, J., Peng, D.H., Fenyo, D., Yuan, H., Lopez, A., Levin, D.S., Meynardie, M., Quinteros, M., Ranieri, M., Sahu, S., Lau, S.C.M., Shum, E., Velcheti, V., Punekar, S.R., Rekhtman, N., Dowling, C.M., Weerasekara, V., Xue, Y., Ji, H., Siu, Y., Jones, D., Hata, A.N., Shimamura, T., Poirier, J.T., Rudin, C.M., Hattori, T., Koide, S., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Neel, B.G., Bardeesy, N., Wong, K.K. In vivo metabolomics identifies CD38 as an emergent vulnerability in LKB1 -mutant lung cancer. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.18.537350

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Weiss-Sadan, T., Ge, M., Hayashi, M., Gohar, M., Yao, C.H., de Groot, A., Harry, S., Carlin, A., Fischer, H., Shi, L., Wei, T.Y., Adelmann, C.H., Wolf, K., Vornbäumen, T., Dürr, B.R., Takahashi, M., Richter, M., Zhang, J., Yang, T.Y., Vijay, V., Fisher, D.E., Hata, A.N., Haigis, M.C., Mostoslavsky, R., Bardeesy, N., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Bar-Peled, L. NRF2 activation induces NADH-reductive stress, providing a metabolic vulnerability in lung cancer. (2023) Cell Metabolism. 35(4):722. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2023.03.011


Weiss-Sadan, T., Ge, M., Hayashi, M., Gohar, M., Yao, C.H., de Groot, A., Harry, S., Carlin, A., Fischer, H., Shi, L., Wei, T.Y., Adelmann, C.H., Wolf, K., Vornbäumen, T., Dürr, B.R., Takahashi, M., Richter, M., Zhang, J., Yang, T.Y., Vijay, V., Fisher, D.E., Hata, A.N., Haigis, M.C., Mostoslavsky, R., Bardeesy, N., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Bar-Peled, L. NRF2 activation induces NADH-reductive stress, providing a metabolic vulnerability in lung cancer. (2023) Cell Metabolism. 35(3):487-503.e7. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2023.01.012

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Guidry, K., Vasudevaraja, V., Labbe, K., Mohamed, H., Serrano, J., Guidry, B.W., DeLorenzo, M., Zhang, H., Deng, J., Sahu, S., Almonte, C., Moreira, A.L., Tsirigos, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pass, H., Snuderl, M., Wong, K.K. DNA Methylation Profiling Identifies Subgroups of Lung Adenocarcinoma with Distinct Immune Cell Composition, DNA Methylation Age, and Clinical Outcome. (2022) Clinical Cancer Research. 28(17):3824-3835. DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-0391

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Pillai, R., Hayashi, M., Zavitsanou, A.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. NRF2: KEAPing Tumors Protected. (2022) Cancer Discovery. 12(3):625-643. DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-21-0922

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Marzio, A., Kurz, E., Sahni, J.M., Di Feo, G., Puccini, J., Jiang, S., Hirsch, C.A., Arbini, A.A., Wu, W.L., Pass, H.I., Bar-Sagi, D., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pagano, M. EMSY inhibits homologous recombination repair and the interferon response, promoting lung cancer immune evasion. (2022) Cell. 185(1):169-183.e19. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.005

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Thandapani, P., Kloetgen, A., Witkowski, M.T., Glytsou, C., Lee, A.K., Wang, E., Wang, J., LeBoeuf, S.E., Avrampou, K., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Tsirigos, A., Aifantis, I. Valine tRNA levels and availability regulate complex I assembly in leukaemia. (2022) Nature. 601(7893):428-433. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04244-1

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Ciampricotti, M., Karakousi, T., Richards, A.L., Quintanal-Villalonga, , Karatza, A., Caeser, R., Costa, E.A., Allaj, V., Manoj, P., Spainhower, K.B., Kombak, F.E., Sanchez-Rivera, F.J., Jaspers, J.E., Zavitsanou, A.M., Maddalo, D., Ventura, A., Rideout, W.M., Akama-Garren, E.H., Jacks, T., Donoghue, M.T.A., Sen, T., Oliver, T.G., Poirier, J.T., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Rudin, C.M. Rlf-Mycl Gene Fusion Drives Tumorigenesis and Metastasis in a Mouse Model of Small Cell Lung Cancer. (2021) Cancer Discovery. 11(12):3214-3229. DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-21-0441

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Ding, H., Chen, Z., Wu, K., Huang, S.M., Wu, W.L., LeBoeuf, S.E., Pillai, R.G., Rabinowitz, J.D., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Activation of the NRF2 antioxidant program sensitizes tumors to G6PD inhibition. (2021) Science Advances. 7(47):eabk1023. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk1023

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Kerk, S.A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Shah, Y.M., Lyssiotis, C.A. Metabolic networks in mutant KRAS-driven tumours: tissue specificities and the microenvironment. (2021) Nature Reviews Cancer. 21(8):510-525. DOI: 10.1038/s41568-021-00375-9

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Zavitsanou, A.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Hunger brings down the tumor fort. (2021) Trends in Cell Biology. 31(8):616-617. DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2021.05.005

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Deng, J., Thennavan, A., Dolgalev, I., Chen, T., Li, J., Marzio, A., Poirier, J.T., Peng, D.H., Bulatovic, M., Mukhopadhyay, S., Silver, H., Papadopoulos, E., Pyon, V., Thakurdin, C., Han, H., Li, F., Li, S., Ding, H., Hu, H., Pan, Y., Weerasekara, V., Jiang, B., Wang, E.S., Ahearn, I., Philips, M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Tsirigos, A., Rothenberg, E., Gainor, J., Freeman, G.J., Rudin, C.M., Gray, N.S., Hammerman, P.S., Pagano, M., Heymach, J.V., Perou, C.M., Bardeesy, N., Wong, K.K. ULK1 inhibition overcomes compromised antigen presentation and restores antitumor immunity in LKB1 mutant lung cancer. (2021) Nat Cancer. 2(5):503-514. DOI: 10.1038/s43018-021-00208-6


Buus, T.B., Herrera, A., Ivanova, E., Mimitou, E., Cheng, A., Herati, R.S., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Smibert, P., Odum, N., Koralov, S.B. Improving oligo-conjugated antibody signal in multimodal single-cell analysis. (2021) Elife. 10. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61973

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Purohit, V., Wang, L., Yang, H., Li, J., Ney, G.M., Gumkowski, E.R., Vaidya, A.J., Wang, A., Bhardwaj, A., Zhao, E., Dolgalev, I., Zamperone, A., Abel, E.V., Magliano, M.P.D., Crawford, H.C., Diolaiti, D., Papagiannakopoulos, T.Y., Lyssiotis, C.A., Simeone, D.M. ATDC binds to KEAP1 to drive NRF2-mediated tumorigenesis and chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer. (2021) Genes & Development. 35(3-4):218-233. DOI: 10.1101/gad.344184.120

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Tsay, J.J., Wu, B.G., Sulaiman, I., Gershner, K., Schluger, R., Li, Y., Yie, T.A., Meyn, P., Olsen, E., Perez, L., Franca, B., Carpenito, J., Iizumi, T., El-Ashmawy, M., Badri, M., Morton, J.T., Shen, N., He, L., Michaud, G., Rafeq, S., Bessich, J.L., Smith, R.L., Sauthoff, H., Felner, K., Pillai, R., Zavitsanou, A.M., Koralov, S.B., Mezzano, V., Loomis, C.A., Moreira, A.L., Moore, W., Tsirigos, A., Heguy, A., Rom, W.N., Sterman, D.H., Pass, H.I., Clemente, J.C., Li, H., Bonneau, R., Wong, K.K., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Segal, L.N. Lower Airway Dysbiosis Affects Lung Cancer Progression. (2021) Cancer Discovery. 11(2):293-307. DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-20-0263

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Wu, W.L., Papagiannakopoulos, T. The Center Cannot Hold: NRF2 Battles Ferroptosis in the 3rd Dimension. (2020) Molecular Cell. 80(5):760-761. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.11.022

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Wu, L., Hollinshead, K.E.R., Hao, Y., Au, C., Kroehling, L., Ng, C., Lin, W.Y., Li, D., Silva, H.M., Shin, J., Lafaille, J.J., Possemato, R., Pacold, M.E., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Kimmelman, A.C., Satija, R., Littman, D.R. Niche-Selective Inhibition of Pathogenic Th17 Cells by Targeting Metabolic Redundancy. (2020) Cell. 182(3):641-654.e20. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.014

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Okazaki, K., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Motohashi, H. Metabolic features of cancer cells in NRF2 addiction status. (2020) Biophys Rev. 12(2):435-441. DOI: 10.1007/s12551-020-00659-8

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LeBoeuf, S.E., Wu, W.L., Karakousi, T.R., Karadal, B., Jackson, S.R., Davidson, S.M., Wong, K.K., Koralov, S.B., Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Activation of Oxidative Stress Response in Cancer Generates a Druggable Dependency on Exogenous Non-essential Amino Acids. (2020) Cell Metabolism. 31(2):339-350.e4. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2019.11.012

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Li, F., Huang, Q., Luster, T.A., Hu, H., Zhang, H., Ng, W.L., Khodadadi-Jamayran, A., Wang, W., Chen, T., Deng, J., Ranieri, M., Fang, Z., Pyon, V., Dowling, C.M., Bagdatlioglu, E., Almonte, C., Labbe, K., Silver, H., Rabin, A.R., Jani, K., Tsirigos, A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Hammerman, P.S., Velcheti, V., Freeman, G.J., Qi, J., Miller, G., Wong, K.K. In Vivo Epigenetic CRISPR Screen Identifies Asf1a as an Immunotherapeutic Target in Kras-Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma. (2020) Cancer Discovery. 10(2):270-287. DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-19-0780

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Sayin, V.I., LeBoeuf, S.E., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Targeting Metabolic Bottlenecks in Lung Cancer. (2019) Trends in Cancer. 5(8):457-459. DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2019.06.001

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Lignitto, L., LeBoeuf, S.E., Homer, H., Jiang, S., Askenazi, M., Karakousi, T.R., Pass, H.I., Bhutkar, A.J., Tsirigos, A., Ueberheide, B., Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pagano, M. Nrf2 Activation Promotes Lung Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting the Degradation of Bach1. (2019) Cell. 178(2):316-329.e18. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.06.003

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McLoughlin, M.R., Orlicky, D.J., Prigge, J.R., Krishna, P., Talago, E.A., Cavigli, I.R., Eriksson, S., Miller, C.G., Kundert, J.A., Sayin, V.I., Sabol, R.A., Heinemann, J., Brandenberger, L.O., Iverson, S.V., Bothner, B., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Shearn, C.T., Arnér, E.S.J., Schmidt, E.E. TrxR1, Gsr, and oxidative stress determine hepatocellular carcinoma malignancy. (2019) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116(23):11408-11417. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1903244116

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Hamza, B., Ng, S.R., Prakadan, S.M., Delgado, F.F., Chin, C.R., King, E.M., Yang, L.F., Davidson, S.M., DeGouveia, K.L., Cermak, N., Navia, A.W., Winter, P.S., Drake, R.S., Tammela, T., Li, C.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Gupta, A.J., Shaw Bagnall, J., Knudsen, S.M., Vander Heiden, M.G., Wasserman, S.C., Jacks, T., Shalek, A.K., Manalis, S.R. Optofluidic real-time cell sorter for longitudinal CTC studies in mouse models of cancer. (2019) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116(6):2232-2236. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1814102116

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Garcia-Bermudez, J., Baudrier, L., La, K., Zhu, X.G., Fidelin, J., Sviderskiy, V.O., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Molina, H., Snuderl, M., Lewis, C.A., Possemato, R.L., Birsoy, K. Publisher Correction: Aspartate is a limiting metabolite for cancer cell proliferation under hypoxia and in tumours. (2018) Nature Cell Biology. 20(10):1228. DOI: 10.1038/s41556-018-0184-2

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Snuderl, M., Kannan, K., Pfaff, E., Wang, S., Stafford, J.M., Serrano, J., Heguy, A., Ray, K., Faustin, A., Aminova, O., Dolgalev, I., Stapleton, S.L., Zagzag, D., Chiriboga, L., Gardner, S.L., Wisoff, J.H., Golfinos, J.G., Capper, D., Hovestadt, V., Rosenblum, M.K., Placantonakis, D.G., LeBoeuf, S.E., Papagiannakopoulos, T.Y., Chavez, L., Ahsan, S., Eberhart, C.G., Pfister, S.M., Jones, D.T.W., Karajannis, M.A. Recurrent homozygous deletion of DROSHA and microduplication of PDE4DIP in pineoblastoma. (2018) Nature Communications. 9(1):2868. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05029-3

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Garcia-Bermudez, J., Baudrier, L., La, K., Zhu, X.G., Fidelin, J., Sviderskiy, V.O., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Molina, H., Snuderl, M., Lewis, C.A., Possemato, R.L., Birsoy, K. Aspartate is a limiting metabolite for cancer cell proliferation under hypoxia and in tumours. (2018) Nature Cell Biology. 20(7):775-781. DOI: 10.1038/s41556-018-0118-z

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Petersen, D.R., Saba, L.M., Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Schmidt, E.E., Merrill, G.F., Orlicky, D.J., Shearn, C.T. Elevated Nrf-2 responses are insufficient to mitigate protein carbonylation in hepatospecific PTEN deletion mice. (2018) PLOS One. 13(5):e0198139. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198139

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Minton, D.R., Nam, M., McLaughlin, D.J., Shin, J., Bayraktar, E.C., Alvarez, S.W., Sviderskiy, V.O., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Sabatini, D.M., Birsoy, K., Possemato, R. Serine Catabolism by SHMT2 Is Required for Proper Mitochondrial Translation Initiation and Maintenance of Formylmethionyl-tRNAs. (2018) Molecular Cell. 69(4):610-621.e5. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.01.024

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Alvarez, S.W., Sviderskiy, V.O., Terzi, E.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Moreira, A.L., Adams, S., Sabatini, D.M., Birsoy, K., Possemato, R. NFS1 undergoes positive selection in lung tumours and protects cells from ferroptosis. (2017) Nature. 551(7682):639-643. DOI: 10.1038/nature24637

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Romero, R., Sayin, V.I., Davidson, S.M., Bauer, M.R., Singh, S.X., LeBoeuf, S.E., Karakousi, T.R., Ellis, D.C., Bhutkar, A., Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Subbaraj, L., Martinez, B., Bronson, R.T., Prigge, J.R., Schmidt, E.E., Thomas, C.J., Goparaju, C., Davies, A., Dolgalev, I., Heguy, A., Allaj, V., Poirier, J.T., Moreira, A.L., Rudin, C.M., Pass, H.I., Vander Heiden, M.G., Jacks, T., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Keap1 loss promotes Kras-driven lung cancer and results in dependence on glutaminolysis. (2017) Nature Medicine. 23(11):1362-1368. DOI: 10.1038/nm.4407

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Sayin, V.I., LeBoeuf, S.E., Singh, S.X., Davidson, S.M., Biancur, D., Guzelhan, B.S., Alvarez, S.W., Wu, W.L., Karakousi, T.R., Zavitsanou, A.M., Ubriaco, J., Muir, A., Karagiannis, D., Morris, P.J., Thomas, C.J., Possemato, R., Vander Heiden, M.G., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Activation of the NRF2 antioxidant program generates an imbalance in central carbon metabolism in cancer. (2017) Elife. 6. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.28083

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Sayin, V.I., Papagiannakopoulos, T. Application of CRISPR-mediated genome engineering in cancer research. (2017) Cancer Letters. 387:10-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2016.03.029

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Ashouri, A., Sayin, V.I., Van den Eynden, J., Singh, S.X., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Larsson, E. Pan-cancer transcriptomic analysis associates long non-coding RNAs with key mutational driver events. (2016) Nature Communications. 7:13197. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13197

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Mayers, J.R., Torrence, M.E., Danai, L.V., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Davidson, S.M., Bauer, M.R., Lau, A.N., Ji, B.W., Dixit, P.D., Hosios, A.M., Muir, A., Chin, C.R., Freinkman, E., Jacks, T., Wolpin, B.M., Vitkup, D., Vander Heiden, M.G. Tissue of origin dictates branched-chain amino acid metabolism in mutant Kras-driven cancers. (2016) Science. 353(6304):1161-5. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf5171

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Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Bauer, M.R., Davidson, S.M., Heimann, M., Subbaraj, L., Bhutkar, A., Bartlebaugh, J., Vander Heiden, M.G., Jacks, T. Circadian Rhythm Disruption Promotes Lung Tumorigenesis. (2016) Cell Metabolism. 24(2):324-31. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.07.001

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Masri, S., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Kinouchi, K., Liu, Y., Cervantes, M., Baldi, P., Jacks, T., Sassone-Corsi, P. Lung Adenocarcinoma Distally Rewires Hepatic Circadian Homeostasis. (2016) Cell. 165(4):896-909. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.039

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Davidson, S.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Olenchock, B.A., Heyman, J.E., Keibler, M.A., Luengo, A., Bauer, M.R., Jha, A.K., O'Brien, J.P., Pierce, K.A., Gui, D.Y., Sullivan, L.B., Wasylenko, T.M., Subbaraj, L., Chin, C.R., Stephanopolous, G., Mott, B.T., Jacks, T., Clish, C.B., Vander Heiden, M.G. Environment Impacts the Metabolic Dependencies of Ras-Driven Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. (2016) Cell Metabolism. 23(3):517-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.01.007

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Akama-Garren, E.H., Joshi, N.S., Tammela, T., Chang, G.P., Wagner, B.L., Lee, D.Y., Rideout, W.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Xue, W., Jacks, T. A Modular Assembly Platform for Rapid Generation of DNA Constructs. (2016) Scientific Reports. 6:16836. DOI: 10.1038/srep16836

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Sánchez-Rivera, F.J., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Romero, R., Tammela, T., Bauer, M.R., Bhutkar, A., Joshi, N.S., Subbaraj, L., Bronson, R.T., Xue, W., Jacks, T. Rapid modelling of cooperating genetic events in cancer through somatic genome editing. (2014) Nature. 516(7531):428-31. DOI: 10.1038/nature13906

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Mayers, J.R., Wu, C., Clish, C.B., Kraft, P., Torrence, M.E., Fiske, B.P., Yuan, C., Bao, Y., Townsend, M.K., Tworoger, S.S., Davidson, S.M., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Yang, A., Dayton, T.L., Ogino, S., Stampfer, M.J., Giovannucci, E.L., Qian, Z.R., Rubinson, D.A., Ma, J., Sesso, H.D., Gaziano, J.M., Cochrane, B.B., Liu, S., Wactawski-Wende, J., Manson, J.E., Pollak, M.N., Kimmelman, A.C., Souza, A., Pierce, K., Wang, T.J., Gerszten, R.E., Fuchs, C.S., Vander Heiden, M.G., Wolpin, B.M. Elevation of circulating branched-chain amino acids is an early event in human pancreatic adenocarcinoma development. (2014) Nature Medicine. 20(10):1193-1198. DOI: 10.1038/nm.3686

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Xue, W., Chen, S., Yin, H., Tammela, T., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Joshi, N.S., Cai, W., Yang, G., Bronson, R., Crowley, D.G., Zhang, F., Anderson, D.G., Sharp, P.A., Jacks, T. CRISPR-mediated direct mutation of cancer genes in the mouse liver. (2014) Nature. 514(7522):380-4. DOI: 10.1038/nature13589

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McFadden, D.G., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Taylor-Weiner, A., Stewart, C., Carter, S.L., Cibulskis, K., Bhutkar, A., McKenna, A., Dooley, A., Vernon, A., Sougnez, C., Malstrom, S., Heimann, M., Park, J., Chen, F., Farago, A.F., Dayton, T., Shefler, E., Gabriel, S., Getz, G., Jacks, T. Genetic and clonal dissection of murine small cell lung carcinoma progression by genome sequencing. (2014) Cell. 156(6):1298-1311. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.031

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Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Friedmann-Morvinski, D., Neveu, P., Dugas, J.C., Gill, R.M., Huillard, E., Liu, C., Zong, H., Rowitch, D.H., Barres, B.A., Verma, I.M., Kosik, K.S. Pro-neural miR-128 is a glioma tumor suppressor that targets mitogenic kinases. (2012) Oncogene. 31(15):1884-95. DOI: 10.1038/onc.2011.380

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Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Kosik, K.S. MicroRNA-124: micromanager of neurogenesis. (2009) Cell Stem Cell. 4(5):375-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2009.04.007

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Xu, N., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Pan, G., Thomson, J.A., Kosik, K.S. MicroRNA-145 regulates OCT4, SOX2, and KLF4 and represses pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells. (2009) Cell. 137(4):647-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.02.038

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Carrettiero, D.C., Hernandez, I., Neveu, P., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Kosik, K.S. The cochaperone BAG2 sweeps paired helical filament- insoluble tau from the microtubule. (2009) Journal of Neuroscience. 29(7):2151-61. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4660-08.2009

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Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Shapiro, A., Kosik, K.S. MicroRNA-21 targets a network of key tumor-suppressive pathways in glioblastoma cells. (2008) Cancer Research. 68(19):8164-72. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-1305

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Papagiannakopoulos, T.*, Kosik, K.S. MicroRNAs: regulators of oncogenesis and stemness. (2008) BMC Med. 6:15. DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-15

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Partridge, J.J., Madsen, M.A., Ardi, V.C., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Kupriyanova, T.A., Quigley, J.P., Deryugina, E.I. Functional analysis of matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases differentially expressed by variants of human HT-1080 fibrosarcoma exhibiting high and low levels of intravasation and metastasis. (2007) Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(49):35964-77. DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M705993200

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Liu, T., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Puskar, K., Qi, S., Santiago, F., Clay, W., Lao, K., Lee, Y., Nelson, S.F., Kornblum, H.I., Doyle, F., Petzold, L., Shraiman, B., Kosik, K.S. Detection of a microRNA signal in an in vivo expression set of mRNAs. (2007) PLOS One. 2(8):e804. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000804

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Deryugina, E.I., Zijlstra, A., Partridge, J.J., Kupriyanova, T.A., Madsen, M.A., Papagiannakopoulos, T., Quigley, J.P. Unexpected effect of matrix metalloproteinase down-regulation on vascular intravasation and metastasis of human fibrosarcoma cells selected in vivo for high rates of dissemination. (2005) Cancer Research. 65(23):10959-69. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-2228

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Education

BS, Molecular Genetics, University of Sussex
PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Santa Barbara
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT


Awards & Honors

  • Bodossaki Foundation Distinguished Young Scientists in Life Sciences, Greece, 2021
  • Emerald Foundation Young Investigator Award, 2019
  • NIH R37 Merit Award, 2018
  • Greek National Academy of Science Award of Excellence, Athens, Greece, 2015
  • Lung Cancer Research Foundation Grant Recipient, 2013
  • Hope Funds for Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013
  • Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) Research Merit Award, 2012
  • American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012
  • Onassis Foundation Scholar, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, 2011
  • Ellen Schamberg Award, UC Santa Barbara, 2009