2024
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1/31 - Giuseppe's paper has been highlighted on the Columbia Cancer Center website!
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2021
10/21 - Sam's review on CRISPR screening technologies for the study of homologous recombination is out in Current Opinions in Genetics and Development!
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9/21 - Angelo's paper has been highlighted on the Columbia Cancer Center website!
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8/21 - Angelo's paper on the role of translesion synthesis in BRCA1/2-deficient cancer cells has been accepted in Molecular Cell!
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3/21 - The Ciccia lab has been highlighted on the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative website!
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2/21 - Raquel's paper has been highlighted on the Columbia website!
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2020
12/20 - Raquel's paper on the use of base editing screens to interrogate human variants has been accepted in Cell!
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06/20 - Alberto is awarded a Mary Kay Foundation Cancer Research Grant!
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06/20 - Tarun is now Dr. Nambiar!
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05/20 - Jen-Wei's paper on the identification of MCM8IP as stimulator of the MCM8-9 helicase has been accepted in Nature Communications!
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01/20 - Alberto has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
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01/20 - Pierre's paper on DTECT, a novel method to identify genetic variants introduced by genome editing, has been accepted in Cell Reports!
2019
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09/19 - Our first preprint on a novel MCM8-9 interactor required for homologous recombination is now online in bioRxiv!
06/19 - Raquel is awarded the EMBO Long-Term Fellowship!
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05/19 - Tarun's paper on the stimulation of CRISPR-mediated homology-directed repair by RAD18 has been accepted in Nature Communications!
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2018
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09/18 - Raquel joins our laboratory!
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05/18 - The Pershing Square Sohn Prize awardees are announced in The New York Times!
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05/18 - The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance celebrates Alberto's award with a video of the Ciccia lab!
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05/18 - Alberto is awarded the Pershing Square Sohn Prize to study how genome instability activates the innate immune signaling in breast cancer!
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05/18 - Alberto receives the Irma T. Hirschl Award!
04/18 - Alberto receives the Schaefer Research Scholar Award to study cancer-relevant gene variants using CRISPR-mediated base editing!
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01/18 - Giuseppe is awarded a fellowship from the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC)!
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2017
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09/17 - Our second paper on the role of SNF2-family fork remodelers in BRCA1/2-deficient cells has been accepted in Molecular Cell!
08/17 - Our first paper on iSTOP has been accepted in Molecular Cell!
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07/17 - Sam joins our laboratory!
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06/17 - Giuseppe is awarded an American-Italian Cancer Foundation fellowship!
01/17 - Giuseppe joins our laboratory!
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2016
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11/16 - Jen-Wei is awarded a Cancer Biology Training Grant position!
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08/16 - Tarun joins our laboratory!
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04/16 - Alberto is awarded his second R01 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study how transcription is regulated in response to DNA damage!
04/16 - Alberto is awarded a Career Catalyst Research Grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to study the impact of replication fork damage on breast cancer predisposition!
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2015
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12/15 - Alberto receives a Liz Tilberis Award from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund to study the mechanisms of BRCA1-dependent tumor suppression in ovarian cells!
11/15 - Alberto is awarded his first R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study the role of replication fork remodeling in maintaining genome stability!
09/15 - Pierre joins our laboratory!
08/15 - Sarah is the first graduate student to join our laboratory!
07/15 - Silvia joins our laboratory!
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06/15 - Max is the first undergraduate student to join our laboratory!
05/15 - Jen-Wei is awarded an Ines Mandl Fellowship to find novel genes mutated in Schimke immuno-osseous dysplasia!
04/15 - Sarah is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to characterize novel components of the DNA damage response!
2014
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12/14 - Alberto receives a Young Investigator Grant from the Breast Cancer Alliance to study DNA replication defects exhibited by breast cancer cells!
05/14 - Angelo joins our laboratory!
02/14 - Jen-Wei is the first postdoc to join our laboratory!
01/14 - Opening of the Ciccia laboratory in the Irving Cancer Research Center at Columbia University Medical Center!