2015
June

Abdallah Eteleeb joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar.

May
Danielle receives her Honors Thesis.
​April
Chris and Nicole's paper entitled “Pan-cancer transcriptome analysis reveals long noncoding RNAs with conserved function” is accepted to RNA Biology.
​February
Jessica Silva-Fisher receives an AACR-GYRIG (Get-your-Rear-In-Gear) Scholar-In-Training-Award for travel to the upcoming 2015 AACR Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Ha Dang receives an AACR-Aflac Scholar-in-training Award for travel to the upcoming 2015 AACR Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
​January
Dr. Maher receives a Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge focusing on Treatment Sciences.
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2014
December
Jessica Silva-Fisher receives a Keystone Symposia Underrepresented Trainee Scholarship.
Jessica Silva-Fisher receives a Ruth Kirschstein Research Service Award.
November
Prostate Management Diagnostics, Inc. Announces Series A Financing
Led by Dr. Elaine Mardis, the Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of The Genome Institute, and Dr. Christopher Maher, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Director at The Genome Institute, PMDI strives to create new tests to identify and stratify patients at risk for and diagnosed with prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of malignancy diagnosed in men, with the vast majority receiving aggressive, but often unnecessary, treatment that frequently leads to debilitating side effects.
​October
Christopher Maher receives a Susan G. Komen Career Catalyst Award
This award focuses on investigating the mechanism of resistance to hormone therapy, particularly with regard to the potential impact of a newly identified class of genes called long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), by studying patients enrolled in two aromatase inhibitor clinical trials.​
​July
Lung lincRNA manuscript is published in the Genome Biology Special Issue on “cancer heterogeneity and progression”.
May​

Jessica Silva-Fisher joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar.

April​
cDNA-Capture manuscript is published in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

January

Ha Dang joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar.
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2013
November
Dr. Maher receives a Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigator Award.
October
Maher Lab is getting ready for MOvember.
Dr. Maher receives a V Foundation V Scholar Award.
September
Maher lab collaboration with Drs. Matthew Ellis and Elaine Mardis on integrative analysis of human in mouse xenografts reveals gene fusions in therapy resistant breast cancer patients is published in Cell Reports (PMID:24055055).
Danielle Cicka, a MARC-USTAR Fellow, joins the lab.
August
Richard Hauser joins the lab.
June
Abena Apaw (UStars Program), Corinne Rauck, and Marie Clark join the lab for the summer.
Dr. Maher presents at the Avison Biomedical Research Symposium at the Yonsei College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
April
Christopher Cabanski presents abstract at Washington University Postdoc Symposium.
Nicole White publishes a review on gene fusions in prostate cancer (PMID:23410129).
March
Drs. Maher, Fields, Lockhart, Mardis, and Wilson labs are awarded a Siteman Cancer Center Team Science Award for their project “Identifying Mechanisms of Metastasis to Improve Outcomes in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer”.
January
Sammed Mandape joins the lab as an intern.
Jin Zhang joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar.

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2012
October
Dr. Maher receives Melissa Zagon Founders Award.
September
Maher lab collaborates on a TCGA study published in Nature entitled “Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell carcinomas” (PMID:22960745).
Genome analysis of lung cancer is published in Cell (PMID: 22980976).
July
Dr. Maher receives LUNGevity Foundation Career Development Award.
June
Christopher Cabanski joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar.

Maher lab collaboration with Drs. Matthew Ellis and Elaine Mardis on whole-genome analysis of breast cancer patient response to aromatase inhibition is published in Nature (PMID:22722193).
April
Maher lab receives an American Lung Association Biomedical Research Grant entitled “Identifying Genetic Mutations in Lung Cancer Patients”.
January
Maher Lab publishes a review on Chromothripsis in Cell entitled “Chromothripsis and human disease: piecing together the shattering process” (PMID:22265399).

 

2011
October
Nicole White joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar.
September
ChimeraScan published in the October issue of Bioinformatics.
 

On September 1st, 2011, the Maher Lab starts setting up!