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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.

2017 Fellows

Neelkanth Bardhan, Ph.D.

Belcher Laboratory
Development of a Low-cost Optical Imaging Approach Towards
Early Diagnostics and Near-Infrared Phototherapy
of Metastatic Ovarian Cancer

Sriram Ganapathy, Ph.D.

Yaffe Laboratory
Non-canonical Role for the p38-MAPK/MK2 Pathway
in Lung and Head & Neck Cancer

2014 Fellows

Noor Jailkhani, Ph.D.

Hynes Laboratory
Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Biomarkers and Targets
in Breast Cancer Metastases

2013 Fellows

Siddharth Jhunjhunwala, Ph.D.

Anderson Laboratory
Counteracting Immunosuppressive Pathways
Exploited by Tumor Microenvironments Using RNA Interference

Read about Dr. Jhunjhunwala's current work

Yogesh Dayma, Ph.D.

Yaffe Laboratory
Characterizing Molecular and Cellular Crossstalk Between
Inflammatory Cytokines, Neutrophils, and Tumorigenesis in Lung, Head and Neck Cancers