Leveraging vulnerabilities created by the cancer genome to identify safe and effective therapeutic strategies for cancer patients

Our Research Focus

In the Cancer Dependency Map project, we profile large panels of cell line models to capture the heterogeneity of human cancer and link the molecular and genetic alterations of the tumors to their dependencies. Within the TDA laboratory we:

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Apply new functional genomics approaches and technologies to identify new ways to map vulnerabilities at scale.

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Develop experimental and computational strategies to prioritize therapeutic targets from DepMap datasets.

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Investigate the molecular basis of the dependencies and triage targets to drug discovery pipelines.

Our Team

We are a multi-disciplinary team that embraces different perspectives and talents to accomplish common goals.

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Francisca Vazquez

TDA Group leader, Director DepMap

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Kirsty Wienand

Scientific Lead

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Samantha Stokes

Program Manager

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Kelly Sullivan

Principal Alliance Manager

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Pratik Singh

Target Discovery Project Lead

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Florencia Madorsky Rowdo

Target Discovery Project Lead

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Haider Inam

Target Discovery Project Lead

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Judhajeet Ray

Target Discovery Project Lead

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Barbara De Kegel

Computational Biologist

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Daniel Venooker

Project Manager

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Chyna Betts

Senior Operations Specialist

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Mike Kanare

Operations Specialist

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Andrew Tuttle

Research Associate

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Evan Lenz

Research Associate

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Konnor Yunghans

Research Associate

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Anisah Adeagbo

Research Associate

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Nusrat Islam

Research Associate

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Louie Hager

Research Associate

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Esther Olajide

Research Associate

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William DeSilva

Research Associate

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Simon Kangoun

Research Associate

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Nora Shanks

Research Associate

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Jessica Okolo

Research Associate

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Fernanda Garcia

Research Associate

Alumni

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Gabriel Mesa

Research Associate

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Mike Burger

Computational Scientist

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Ashir Borah

Computational Associate

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Edmond Chan

Post Doc

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Harry Liang

Research Associate

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Daniel Bondeson

Research Scientist

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Tate Bertea

Research Associate

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Linh (Mylinh) He

Research Associate

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Brent Paolella

Target Advancement Project Lead

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Sara Wie

Research Associate

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Nolan Bick

Research Associate

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James Neiswender

Target Discovery Project Lead

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Lisa Brenan

Target Discovery Project Lead

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Jenny Serra-Vinardell

Target Discovery Project Lead

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Tsukasa Shibue

Target Advancement Project Lead

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Patricia Borck

Target Discovery Project Lead

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Alina Simerzin

Target Advancement Project Lead

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Alvin Qin

Computational Biologist

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Melissa Sadir

Data Analytics Manager

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Isha Lokurkar

Project Manager

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Lisa Cervia

Post Doc

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Jason Kwon

Post Doc

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Nia Lloyd

Research Associate

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Megan Wong

Research Associate

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Ashley Anderson

Research Associate

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Zoe Posner

Research Associate

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Anthony Lau

Research Associate

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Yuqi Chen

Research Associate

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Daniel Lubicki

Research Associate

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Hannah Shadmany

Research Associate

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Matias Enriquez

Research Associate

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Maisha Chowdhury

Research Associate

Join Us

Publications

Selected publications

Are CRISPR Screens Providing the Next Generation of Therapeutic Targets?

Francisca Vazquez et al.
Cancer Research
2021-12-01

Predicting cell health phenotypes using image-based morphology profiling

Gregory P. Way et al.
Molecular Biology of the Cell
2021-04-01

Bridging the gap between cancer cell line models and tumours using gene expression data

Javad Noorbakhsh et al.
British Journal of Cancer
2021-03-01

Agreement between two large pan-cancer CRISPR-Cas9 gene dependency data sets

Joshua M. Dempster et al.
Nature Communications
2019-12-01

Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 screen identifies druggable dependencies in TP53 wild-type Ewing sarcoma

Björn Stolte et al.
Journal of Experimental Medicine
2018-07-01

Contact Us

Francisca Vazquez

Target Discovery Advancement Team
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
415 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142

vazquez@broadinstitute.org