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Park lab gathered to say goodbye to Yoo-Na as her time here as a visiting scholar working on ctDNA analysis ended. Yoo-Na returns to her clinical fellowship and role as a Research Assistant Professor in gynecologic oncology in Korea.

After a brief hiatus, Park lab members past and present gathered together to celebrate the holiday season. A few active members were unable to join during this busy time: Benedikt Geiger, Shannon Ehmesen, Joe Luquette, Greg Brunette, Teng Gao, Bianca Morris, Rahi Navelkar.

The lab had a fun and adventurous time kayaking together on the Charles this August!

Unfortunately, we failed to get Peter Park and Dominik Glodzik in the picture but they also attended.

The lab said goodbye and good luck to Antuan as he heads onto his next adventure in medical school at Mayo Clinic!

“In this new study, led by SPECIFICANCER co-investigator Peter Park of Harvard Medical School, US, and his postdoctoral fellow Jake Lee, the researchers used whole-genome sequencing, RNA sequencing and epigenomic data to uncover the origin of focal oncogene amplifications in breast cancer.”

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Congratulations to Vinay for graduating this year with a PhD! At 369 pages, his thesis “Origins, patterns, and consequences of somatic mutations in engineered, normal, and diseased cells” spans multiple areas including tracking the pattern of somatic mutations in the brain at the single cell level, identifying off-target effects of genome...

The SMaHT Kickoff Meeting brought together approximately 100 awardees and NIH staff to discuss the goals and priorities of the newly established Somatic Mosaicism Across Human Tissue Network.

Congratulations to first author Jake June-Koo Lee and all Park Lab members who worked on the recently published paper in Nature titled “ERα-associated translocations underlie oncogene amplifications in breast cancer.” The paper was featured and discussed on multiple news outlets including the Harvard Medical School website: How Breast Cancer Arises...

Park Lab hosted DBMI Happy Hour on May 11th. Our theme was a combination of Star Wars (in honor of May the 4th) and fudge (National Nutty Fudge Day on May 12th, though we left out the nuts!). May the fudge be with you!