NEWS

SEPTEMBER 2023: Dr. Lise Brault joins our laboratory as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Bonjour Lise!

JULY 2023: Time flies! Steven Persaud is leaving our lab to start medical school at Weill Cornell Medicine! Thank you for your amazing work and good luck with your medical degree!

JUNE 2023: Ryan Chaffee is joining our lab as a Research Technician! Welcome Ryan!

MAY-JUNE 2023: Hunter College Undergraduate Volunteers: Francesca Jereis, Alona Gulko, Nadia Hassan, and Ruben Saror, begin their summer projects.

APRIL 2023: Our laboratory is awarded the R01 grant to study how therapy affects evolutionary trajectories and therapeutic resistance in prostate cancer. 

DECEMBER 2022: Starr Cancer Consortium awards our laboratory to determine and target the evolutionary trajectories driving bladder cancer. We are excited to partner with the laboratories of Dr. David Solit from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Dr. Adam Siepel from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for this project.

MARCH 2022: Steven joins the Nowak Lab! Welcome!

MARCH 2022: Lizzie leaves the lab and moves to med school! Good Luck!

JANUARY 2022: Dr. Serio awarded the FY21 Early Investigator Research Award! Congratulations!

DECEMBER 2021: Lucrezia joins the Nowak Lab! Welcome!

JULY 2021: Dr. Nowak awarded the Research Scholar Grant! Thank you American Cancer Society (ACS) for your support!

SEPTEMBER 2020: Billy and Dom join Nowak Lab as first ever Ph.D. Students! Welcome!

JUNE 2020: Megan and Caroline leave the lab and move to med school! Good Luck!

JUNE 2020: After graduating from Cornell University, Lizzie joins Nowak lab as Technician. Welcome!

OCTOBER 2019: Billy Lu joined Nowak lab as the first ever Ph.D. rotation student! Welcome!

SEPTEMBER 2019: Dr. Boumaza joined Nowak lab as the first ever post-doctoral fellow! Welcome!

MAY 2019: “The PHLPP2 phosphatase is a druggable driver of prostate cancer progression” paper published in Journal of Cell Biology. Link here: http://jcb.rupress.org/content/early/2019/05/14/jcb.201902048 

MAY 2019: Nick Pavlov, an undergraduate at Hunter College, joins the lab!

NOVEMBER 2018: Daniella Zaytseva, an undergraduate at Hunter College, joins the lab!

OCTOBER 2018: Lab retreat to upstate NY with Dow Lab (http://www.dowlab.org/), Piskounova Lab (https://www.piskounovalab.org/), Barbieri Lab (http://www.barbierilab.com/) and Apostolou Lab (https://www.apostoloulab.com/).

JUNE 2018: Dr. Nowak awarded into the WCM Prostate SPORE Career Enhancement Program 

JUNE 2018: Megan Jibilian and Caroline Buckholtz join the Nowak Lab as the first two members! Welcome!

FEBRUARY 2018: Nowak lab starts!