Ubellacker Lab
The Ubellacker Lab leverages metabolic vulnerabilities in metastasizing cells to target and treat cancer, with a focus on exploiting lipidomic dependencies of cancer cells. We are working to discover mechanisms that explain how lipid availability in the tumor microenvironment promotes cancer cell progression at different metastatic stages. We aim to capitalize on connections between cancer cells and the lipid microenvironment to reduce cancer progression, thus addressing a significant unmet clinical need to develop therapies to prevent the spread of metastatic cancers.
665 Huntington Ave
Building 2, Room 123
Boston, MA 02115
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Mahsa Yavari, 2023-2025
Current position: Postdoctoral Associate, Texas Tech University Health Science Center
Graduate Students
Alanis Carmona (BPH), 2023-2026
Midori Flores (BPH), 2023-2026
Current position: Fellow, Flagship Pioneering Fellowship
Affiliate Members
Luiza Melo, Ph.D. – Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, 2022-2026
Current position: Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen
Laura Wyckaert – Visiting Researcher, 2025
Research Assistants/Lab Managers
Mayher Kaur – Research Assistant, 2024-2026
Current position: PhD Student, Harvard BPH Program
Krystina Szylo – Research Assistant, 2022-2024
Current position: PhD Student, Stanford University
Jordan Torpey – Research Assistant, 2023-2024
Current position: Management Coordinator, Emerald Cloud Lab
Lan Hai, Ph.D. – Lab Manager, 2023
Current position: Lab Manager, Kory Laboratory
Clinical Research Fellows (in collaboration with Dr. Ted James, BIDMC)
Laura Martin Manfroi, M.D., 2024-2026
Current position: MPH Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Samir Mitri, M.D., 2024-2025
Current position: Surgical Resident, BIDMC
Tina Bharani, M.D., 2023-2024
Current position: Surgical Resident, Thomas Jefferson University
Estefania Roldan, M.D., 2023-2024
Current position: Surgical Resident, BIDMC
Undergraduate Researchers
Nicole Cayting, 2023-2024
Current position: PhD Student, Brown University
Jazmin Rivera, 2024
Current position: Undergraduate Student, Princeton University
June Monge Longo, IMFAHE Research Scholar, 2024
Current position: PhD Student, ETH Zurich
Laura Wyckaert, Visiting PhD Student, 2025
Current position: PhD Student, University of Ghent
Rotation Students
Nhien Tran, 2023
Current position: PhD Student, BPH program, Evanna Mills Laboratory
Midori Flores (BPH), 2023
Current position: PhD Candidate, Ubellacker Laboratory
Cameron Fraser (BPH), 2023
Current position: PhD Candidate, Ubellacker Laboratory
Sarah Zaghouni (BBS), 2024
Current position: PhD Student, Sokol Laboratory
Jessica Freed (BPH), 2024
Current position: PhD Student, Hotamişligil Laboratory
Megan Cheah (BPH), 2024
Current position: PhD Student, Chouchani Laboratory
Christopher Clark (BPH), 2025
Current position: PhD Student, Sarosiek Laboratory*
Amaury Dasseux (BPH), 2025
Current position: PhD Rotation Student, Dibble Laboratory*
Lewis Hendrianto (BBS), 2025
Current position: PhD Rotation Student, Mancias Laboratory*
*Ubellacker Lab affiliate member