My name is Cameron – I'm a researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, where I work as a postdoc in the labs of Leonard Zon and Franziska Michor.
I'm interested in the biology of early tumorigenesis; I work to improve our understanding of how precancerous fields and lesions gradually evolve into cancerous tumors, using zebrafish as a model system due to their transparent skin and accessible embryos for mosaic genetic engineering. My goal is to help us realize a future where most cancers can be eliminated before they become life-threatening.
My PhD work at MIT focused on understanding how kinase-addicted cancers resist therapy and on building new tools to analyze molecular pathways and dependencies in patient tumor samples. I use a variety of cutting-edge experimental tools including live imaging, synthetic biology, and mass spectrometry, and I enjoy coupling data from these tools with principled mathematical and statistical modeling to tackle fundamental questions in cancer biology.