My name is Cam – 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 malignant tumors gradually evolve from precancerous fields and lesions, using zebrafish as a model system due to their transparent skin and accessible embryos for mosaic genetic engineering. I love using fluorescence microscopy, gene perturbations, computational modeling, and mass spectrometry to solve important problems in cancer biology. 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 cancer cells resist therapy and building new tools to analyze molecular pathways and dependencies in human tumors.