Pratiti Bandopadhayay

Pratiti Bandopadhayay

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pratiti Bandopadhayay
Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer related death in childhood. Children that do survive are frequently left with life-long and devastating morbidities that arise from the tumors, and the treatments required to cure them. Our lab applies genomic approaches to identify drivers of tumor formation and resistance, coupled with functional genomics and cutting edge and molecular oncology, to identify the mechanisms through which these alterations lead to brain tumors. We also study how these processes are shaped by normal brain development. Our goal is to leverage these insights to develop novel therapeutic approaches. Projects in the lab span computational analyses of genomic data (DNA, RNA, epigenetics) generated from tumors, at both bulk and single-cell level, to high-throughput genetic perturbation assays. We also leverage methods to generate patient derived and isogenic neurosphere model systems. Our lab believes that progress is accelerated through team science, and we collaborate with multiple scientists and groups across the world.

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Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Mayer Building, Room 658
450 Brookline Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

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