The Rathmell lab explores a diverse set of projects with the goal to better understand the renal cell carcinomas. This objective establishes the framework by which all of us learn together and continue to develop our professional skills as investigators. Our lab mixes undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, along with postdoctoral fellows and research faculty, all held together by a phenomenal lab manager to advance the science of kidney cancer.

 

Lab Manager

Anna Chytil

 

Research Faculty

    

Frank Mason, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Research Interest: Causes and consequences of genome instability in kidney cancer with an emphasis on mitotic errors

 

Research Staff

    

Emily Kounlavong

Research Assistant

Research Interest: Studying the mechanisms driving genomic instability in renal cell carcinoma

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

        

Zachary Bacigalupa, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Interest: Novel approach to blocking HIF-2α signaling by inhibiting the metabolic enzyme ACSS2 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)

 

Agi A. deCubas, PhD                                       

 

Graduate Students

        

Aaron Lim

MD/PhD Student

Research Interest: Effects of extracellular vesicles in renal cell carcinoma

 

Bradley Reinfeld               

 

        

Melissa Wolf

Research Interest: Elucidating the relationship between infiltrating immune cells and RCC tumor cells and the metabolic programs they employ to drive tumor progression and therapeutic resistance

 

Undergraduate Students

Anuj Bhatia

Undergraduate Student

(Works with Agi A. deCubas, PhD)

 

Whitney Brown

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Research Interest: Acetate metabolism clear cell renal cell carcinoma (with Zachary Bacigalupa)