June 2025
Nicolas Named CRI CLIP Investigator
Nicolas has been awarded the Cancer Research Institute CLIP Investigator Award for the lab’s research on how transposable element -driven inflammation contributes to cancer progression and resistance to immunotherapy, particularly in older individuals
May 2025
Welcome Yu-Chan!
Yu-Chan Chih joins the Vabret lab as a new postdoctoral fellow. Yu-Chan completed his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Michael Platten at the German Cancer Research Center, where he developed expertise in antigen-targeted T cell therapies. You can read here a publication from his Ph.D. work.
May 2025
Bhavya Awarded CIHR Doctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Bhavya who has been awarded a prestigious Doctoral Research Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology!
February 2025
First R01 NoA!
The lab has received its first R01 Notice of Award from the National Cancer Institute at the NIH. This grant, co-led by Dr. Miriam Merad and Dr. Nicolas Vabret will support our research on how aging influences cancer and how age-related changes in the immune system can be targeted to develop new therapeutic strategies
January 2025
Congratulations Dr. Reid Cahn! 🎉
We are thrilled to celebrate Ashley, who successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation after four years in the lab! As the very first Ph.D student of the Vabret Lab, Ashley has been an invaluable cornerstone of our team since day 1.