September 2023 – Jenelys’s pre-print on the single cell characterization of murine and mammary organoid cultures is online. Check it out! https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.09.28.559971v1

September 2023 – We (sadly) bid farewell to the amazing Chen Chen, and we wish him the best of luck on his new scientific adventures at WashU.

August 2023 – The dos Santos lab received an award from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation – Prevention Mechanism -, to study develop novel Breast Cancer immuno preventive strategies.

July 2023 – The dos Santos lab scores their third R01! Funds from NIH/NCI will support our studies to understand the molecular players of pregnancy-induced epigenetic memory and breast cancer risk. A great collaboration with Dr. Peter Koo at CSHL!

July 2023 – Melissa Lozada (CSHL PREP program) joined our lab! Welcome Melissa!

July 2023 – Mackenzie’s review on the outcomes, pathophysiology, and models of Gestational Breast Cancer is online! Check it out! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10911-023-09546-w

May 2023 – Lucia has been selected to receive the La Caixa Foundation award, to support the development of her PhD thesis on the effects of gender transitioning hormone treatment on breast development and cancer risk. Well done, Lucia!

May 2023 – Steven has been awarded an F30, to support the development of his PhD thesis on the role of whole body alterations and breast cancer development. Well done, Steven!

April 2023 – Jenelys successfully defended her PhD dissertation !!! Congrats Dr. Ruiz-Ortiz, and keep on doing amazing science at Rockefeller!

February 2023 – The dos Santos lab received an award from the Breast Cancer Alliance Foundation to study strategies for immunosuppression in Breast Cancer.

February 2023 – We want to wish Dr. Samantha Cyrill the best of luck on her new position as Assistant Editor at Genes & Development – well done Sam!

January 2023 – Mackenzie has been awarded an CSHL Cancer Center T32, to support the development and characterization of Gestational Breast Cancer models. Well done, Mackenzie!

December 2022 – Steven’s review on the clinical utilization of 3D organoid systems is online! Check it out! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15353702221131877

November 2022 – Amritha successfully defended her PhD dissertation !!! Congrats Dr. Hanasoge Somasundara, and keep on doing amazing science at MSKCC!

September 2022 – Lucia Tellez Perez (CSHL graduate program) joined or lab! Welcome Lucia!

August 2022 – We want to wish James Rail the best of luck as he starts pursuing a medical degree.

August 2022 – Dhivyaa Anandan (SBU MD/PhD program) joined our lab! Welcome Dhivyaa!

July 2022 – Deeptiman Chatterjee, is the new postdoctoral fellows in our lab! Welcome Dr. Chatterjee!

March 2022 – The dos Santos lab received a Northwell-CSHL award to define the molecular basis of Gestational Breast Cancer.

March 2022 – We bid farewell to Asma, and we wish her the best of luck on her new scientific adventures.

December 2021 – Amritha’s paper on oncogenesis inhibition and NKT is online! Check it out! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112472101593X?via%3Dihub

September 2021 – Mackenzie Callaway, is the new postdoctoral fellows in our lab! Welcome Dr. Callaway!

June 2021 – Michele Ciccone (SBU),  joined our lab! Welcome Michelle!

May 2021 – Sam Henry’s paper on single cell characterization on mammary epithelial and non-epithelial cells is online! Check it out! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33988830/

April 2021 – Steven Lewis (SBU MD/PhD program) joined our lab! Welcome Steven!

April 2021 – Camila dos Santos is promoted to CSHL Associate Professor

March 2021 – Anastasia Poulos (SBU undergraduate program), Evelyn Hernandez (Hofstra undergraduate program) and Nancy Dong (SBU undergraduate program) joined our lab! Welcome Anastasia, Evelyn and Nancy

February 2021 – Jenelys Ruiz-Ortiz (CSHL graduate program) joined or lab! Welcome Jenelys!

December 2020 – Asma Kaleem joined our lab! Welcome Asma!

November 2020 – Mike and Marygrace’s paper on pregnancy-induced mammary organoids is online! Check it out! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10911-020-09465-0

October 2020 – Another comprehensive review in collaboration with Priscila Slepicka, covering the molecular basis of mammary gland development. Check it out! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33082117/

September 2020 – The dos Santos lab scores their second R01! Funds from NIH/NIA will support our studies to understand the evolutionary basis of pregnancy-induced epigenetic memory. A great collaboration with Dr. Adam Siepel at CSHL!

September 2020 – Our scRNAseq collaboration with the Machado’s lab is online! Check it out! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7541939/

September 2020 – James Rail, a SBU former undergraduate student, joined our lab! Welcome James!!

August 2020 – We wish Mary Feigman all the best on her new position at United Biomedical

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April 2020 – Mary’s paper describing the effects of pregnancy on mammary oncogenesis is online! Check it out! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16479-z

April 2020 –  Samantha Henry, a SBU graduate student from the genetics department, joined our lab! Welcome Sam!!!

February 2020 – The dos Santos lab scores their first NIH/NCI R01 to study the epigenomic regulation of BRCA1 deficient mammary tumorigenesis.

November 2019 – Amritha Varshin Hanasoge Somasundara, CSHL graduate student, joined our lab! Welcome Amritha!!!

October 2019 – We welcome Iris Munhoz Costa, a visitor graduate student from the Sao Paulo University (USP) – Brazil- for a 1-year internship in our lab. We hope you have a fun and fruitful time!

September 2019 – We welcome Marygrace Trousdell as the new Computational Sci Developer in our lab. We know you will rock Marygrace!

August 2019 – We welcome Michael Ciccone as the new SBU master student in our lab. Welcome, again, Mike!!

August 2019 – We wish Matthew Moss all of success in his graduate school endeavors, at Hosftra/Feinstein graduate program. We will miss you Matt!!!

February 2019 – Stony Brook to host second Women is STEM Leadership Program – https://www.newsday.com/business/women-stem-stony-brook-1.27502412

August 2018 – We welcome Michael Ciccone as the new dos Santos lab intern!

April 2018 – Camila dos Santos received a Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research – http://tbrnewsmedia.com/tag/pershing-square-sohn-prize/

March 2018 – Camila dos Santos was selected as a 2018 Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR Career Development Award for Translational Breast Cancer Research.

October 2017 – We welcome Mary Feigman and Samathat Cyrill as the new postdoctoral fellows in our lab!

September 2017 – Farewell Julia Bouhuis – very productive and fun 6-months at the lab! We wish you all the best on your medical carrier.

August 2017 – We wish Wesley all the best on his new postdoctoral position at University of Tulane.

June 2017 – Wesley’s paper is online – check it out! http://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/abstract/S2213-6711(17)30185-6

May  2017 – We welcome Matthew Moss from Stony Brook University for a summer internship on bioinformatic analysis of mammary epithelial cells in our lab.

March 2017 – We welcome Julia Bouhuis from the Erasmus University Medical Center – The Netherlands- for a 6-month internship in our lab. We hope you have a fun and fruitful time!

March 2017 – Great job Jahan for giving an awesome presentation at the 2017 Partners for the Future Symposium.

March 2017 – Our lab website in online! Thanks to Mike Skuthan for making this possible.

February 2017 – We welcome Chen Chen (postdoctoral fellow) and Shih Ting Yang as new members of our lab!

September 2016 – Camila dos Santos was selected as a 2016 V Foundation V Scholar Award to investigate the interaction of oncogenes with the post-pregnancy mammary epigenome

May 2016 – Camila dos Santos received the Manhasset Woman’s Coalition Against Breast Cancer Research Grant to investigate the effects of Bptf inhibition on growth on human breast cancer organoid cultures.

May 2016 – Camila dos Santos was selected as a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar to investigate the effects of pregnancy on the mammary gland enhancer landscape and cancer risk.

March 2016 – Camila dos Santos was selected as a Pershing Square Foundation Scholar