IICD Newsletter May 2026

May 04, 2026
Stay Informed: IICD May 2026 News and Events 🔬
Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics Newsletter
May 4, 2026
 

Introducing the 2026 Alliance Interns

IICD welcomes six students from École Polytechnique for the 2026 Alliance Program. Over the coming months, they will join IICD researchers to work on interdisciplinary projects in cancer science, spanning applied mathematics, computer science, and biomedical engineering. 
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 Faces of IICD: Khanh Dinh, PhD

Meet Dr. Khanh Ngoc Dinh, Associate Research Scientist. Blending mathematics and biology, his research focuses on how cancer evolves—studying chromosomal instability, clonality, and the dynamics of tumor growth. In his Faces of IICD video feature, Khanh shares insights on his career journey, advice for early scientists, and his perspective on the future of cancer research.

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 National Cancer Research Month Spotlights

May is Cancer Research Month, and we’re excited to spotlight IICD researchers Drs. Jellert Gaublomme and Sanket Rane. Their work is pushing the boundaries of how we study cancer—from using gene-editing tools to better understand how genetic variants contribute to disease, to uncovering the complex interactions within tumors. Explore the features below to learn more about their research and its potential impact.

Jellert Gaublomme
Sanket Rane

IICD Seminar Series: May Seminar


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Computational Methods for Interpreting Cancer Genomes
 
Hosted by: Sanket Rane, PhD
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM (ET)
Location: Schermerhorn
Hall 603 and via Zoom

 
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Some seminars are recorded and available for viewing on the IICD YouTube channel.

IICD Highlights

Drs Khanh Dinh and Ren Yi Wang recently presented new work on tumor clonality and clonal hematopoesis during the poster session at the Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Cancer Biology. 
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Headshot Hadassah Mayerfield
Congratulations to Hadassah Mayerfield (SRP '24) on being awarded a 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship—one of the most prestigious honors for graduate students in STEM. She is one of 2,500 awardees among 14,000 applicants nationwide. Read more

 
headshot of Marina Milea
 
Congratulations to Marina Milea (SRP '25 and SRP Emerging Scholars Award '25) on receiving the Goldwater Scholarship Award, which supports the next generation of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. She is one of 454 awardees out of 14,000 applicants. Read more

 

Recent Publications from IICD Researchers

Convergent uPAR-Positive Tumor Ecosystem Creates Broad Vulnerability to CAR T Cell Therapy. Zhang, Z.; Ho, Y.-J.; Fang, X.; Kim, M.; Li, M.; Luan, W.; Hinterleitner, C.; Haubner, S.; Kogel, F.; Pratt, E. C.; Ozcelik, E.; Reyes, J.; Jiang, Q.; Yang, V. W.; Chen, Y.-J.; Wang, T.; Liu, H.; Hu, H.; Zhuang, X.; Park, J.; Paffenholz, S. V.; Chen, K.; Chang, Q.; Kulick, A.; Zhang, J.; Chan, E.; Rosiek, E.; Fan, N.; Williams, R. A.; Wang, A. C.; Freeman, S.; Tian, S.; Gunset, G.; Garcia Angus, A.; Lecomte, N.; Yildirim, S. Y.; Ali, E.; Wu, M.; Miranda, I. C.; Antonescu, C. R.; Basturk, O.; Tarcan, Z.; Rekhtman, N.; Wilson, C.; Basar, M.; Sauter, J. L.; Al-Ahmadie, H. A.; Singer, S.; Iacobuzio-Donahue, C.; Rudin, C.; de Stanchina, E.; Ganesh, K.; Romesser, P. B.; Weigelt, B.; Huh, D. D.; Leibold, J.; Feucht, J.; Vázquez-García, I.; Bott, M. J.; Zamarin, D.; Shah, S. P.; Lewis, J. S.; Amor, C.; Pe’er, D.; Mansilla-Soto, J.; Filliol, A.; Sadelain, M.; Lowe, S. W. A Cell, 2026, in press.

Inference for Clustering: Conformal Sets for Cluster Labels. Nath, A.; Hur, Y.; Allen, G. arXiv 2026.

LAML-Pro: Joint Maximum Likelihood Inference of Cell Genotypes and Cell Lineage Trees. Chu, G.; Schmidt, H.; Raphael, B. J. bioRxiv 2026

Learning Lineage-guided Geodesics with Finsler Geometry. Zweig, A.; Zhang, M.; Knowles, D. A.; Azizi, E. arXiv 2026.

Single-Cell and Spatial Profiling in Cancer Biology and Clinical Oncology. Frangieh, C. J.; Fan, J. L.; Melms, J. C.; Shah, P.; Azizi, E.; Izar, B. Nature Cancer 2026, in press.

Single-Cell Spatial Atlas of the Aging Human Breast. Gupta, P.; Lee, E.; Masqué Soler, N.; Schrader, E.; Wang, X. Q.; Mayer, S.; Flores, C.; Beatty, S.; Roth, A.; Aparicio, S.; Ali, H. R. Nature Aging 2026, in press

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