Mazumdar-Shaw International Oncology Fellows

A Koch Institute Partnership for Postdoctoral Catalytic Cancer Research at MIT

The Mazumdar-Shaw International Oncology Fellows Program is a high-impact, bilateral collaboration with India focusing on cancer research training as its cornerstone. The program offers opportunities for postdoctoral scientists, engineers, and physicians to undertake cancer research at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, working at the interfaces between biology and medicine and the diverse fields of mathematics, engineering, computer science, and the physical and chemical sciences.

The program is funded by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chair and managing director of Biocon, one of India’s largest biotechnology firms. Started in 2011, the Mazumdar-Shaw Fellows Program brings fellows at the postdoctoral level to the Koch Institute to train for a period of two years. Those researchers will then return to India to help jump-start cancer research programs there. As part of the program, MIT faculty also travel to India to interact with scientists there. Read more about the Mazumdar-Shaw fellowship program and its potential impact on the growing cancer problem in India.

Mazumdar-Shaw Fellowship Overview

Applications for the 2020 Mazumdar-Shaw Fellowships will open soon.

2020 Fellow

Apoorv Shanker, PhD Hammond Laboratory Temporally-controlled Layer-by-Layer Delivery of Immune-Modulators for Combination Immunotherapy

2017 Fellows

	Neelkanth Bardhan, PhD Belcher Laboratory Development of a Low-cost Optical Imaging Approach Towards Early Diagnostics and Near-Infrared Phototherapy of Metastatic Ovarian Cancer
	Sriram Ganapathy, PhD Yaffe Laboratory Non-canonical Role for the p38-MAPK/MK2 Pathway in Lung and Head & Neck Cancer

2014 Fellow

Noor Jailkhani, PhD Hynes Laboratory Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Biomarkers and Targets in Breast Cancer Metastases

2013 Fellows

	Siddharth Jhunjhunwala, PhD Anderson Laboratory Counteracting Immunosuppressive Pathways Exploited by Tumor Microenvironments Using RNA Interference Read about Dr. Jhunjhunwala's current work
	Yogesh Dayma, PhD Yaffe Laboratory Characterizing Molecular and Cellular Crossstalk Between Inflammatory Cytokines, Neutrophils, and Tumorigenesis in Lung, Head and Neck Cancers

2012 Fellows

	Neetu Singh, PhD Bhatia Laboratory Multiblock siRNA-Polymer Nanostructures for RNA Interference Read about Dr. Singh's  current research
	David Wood, PhD Bhatia Laboratory Paper Diagnostics for Cancer Using Synthetic Biomarkers Read about Dr. Wood's current work