Postdoctoral fellow 👩🏻🔬 Pancreatic & Ovarian Cancer Immunology 🔬 Jackson Lab #LTRI, Toronto, ON 📍 Scientific illustrator @designsthatcell ✏️
Toronto, Ontario
Joined August 2012
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Excited to share our review out in @BrJCancer discussing type I interferon activating therapies in ovarian cancer 😊 We took a closer look at the STING pathway, check it out here: nature.com/articles/s41416-0… thanks to the lovely @CanImmun, Deyang Li, @NersesianSarah @juliettew_s 🎉
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The Desmoplastic and Neural Microenvironment of Pancreatic Cancer: Andreas Trumpp, Nina Steele, Min Li, Noor Shakfa, and Joshua H. Choe addressed this topic in a plenary session at the AACR Conference on Pancreatic Cancer.
#AACRpan26 @NinaSteele17 @NoorShakfa
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Congrats to our 2026-27 Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellowship Program trainees: resident Alec Hughes and fellows Isaac Kong, @RawyShaaban , and Suman Gopal Ghosh. The funding award will support their research projects, and we look forward to the impact of their work. @ldawsonmd
Check out our new preprint! We mapped the PDAC tumour microenvironment across tumour, immune and stromal compartments & further linked the spatial architecture of these tumours to expanded proteomic profiles and matched genomics🔬👩🏻🔬🧬
Terrific preprint by @hartjackson using imaging mass cytometry (IMC) & matched genomics for building multimodality prediction models:
Integrated spatial proteomics of human PDAC uncovers an expanded tumour–immune– stroma spectrum with genomic associations
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It may be international #OvarianCancerDay but our efforts towards this disease last all year! Check out our collab on work led by Doug Chung, Pam & others on a unique subset of innate lymphoid cells and their inhibitory functions in the ovarian TME 👩🏻💻➡️ aacrjournals.org/cancerimmun…
Nothing but sincere gratitude for the joint AACR-CIHR Scholar-in-Training award at this year’s annual conference! Feeling inspired and excited for our work now more than ever 🔬👩🏻🔬 @CIHR_IRSC @AACR #AACR25
We are excited to bring 10 Canadian researchers to #AACR25 as part of the inaugural @AACR-CIHR Scholars-in-Training Awards collaboration. Last night, they joined other #AACRScholars in being recognized for their hard work and commitment to research. #CancerResearchSavesLives®
Crazy to see Dr. Rakesh Jain—a pioneer in the tumor microenvironment field I now work in—receive a lifetime achievement award in cancer research! His first RO1 was funded on its 6th go… now 50 years later, my take away is.. just keep trekking along?!💪🏻 #AACR25
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Today we celebrate the International Day of Women & Girls in Science. We, at @QueensuSCRI, feel privileged to have such extraordinary women conducting essential research here! Kudos to them! 👏👏👏 #WomenInScience @QueensUHealth @queensuResearch @queensu
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Meet our award-winning trainees, Dr. Ellen Langille and Dr. Noor Shakfa, and learn how their postdoctoral research at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute is transforming our understanding of tumour biology.
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Wrapped up at the OICR @OICR_news translational research meeting and was so impressed with the honesty and quality of science & discussions around moving our science into clinics. Debuted by postdoc work and it reminded me how much I missed presenting 😊🎖️✨ @OICRRisingStars
Thank you @CCSResearch and @tfri_research for your generous support, and of course one of the greatest mentors and colleagues I could ask for @hartjackson. Forward with curiosity and enthusiasm👩🏻🔬
Big congrats to LTRI researchers Ellen Langille in @DanielSchramek’s lab & Noor Shakfa in @hartjackson’s lab on receiving the inaugural Postdoctoral Research Awards from @CCSResearch with @CIHR_IRSC
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Happy international #WomenInScienceDay 👩🏻🔬!! Proud of all the women around me and those I get to watch from afar; you inspire me everyday 🥰❤️ #research #phd #postdoc #cancer
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We are excited to partner with the Canadian Cancer Society to present Dr. @NoorShakfa with a Research Training Award for postdoctoral fellows.
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We urgently request that the Canadian Government do everything within its power to achieve an immediate ceasefire in #Gaza. Ending the indiscriminate violence is the only way to prevent more deaths and scale up desperately needed humanitarian assistance.
6 pages of Palestinian babies that haven’t made it to their first birthday. I can say with all certainly, genocide, of a primarily young population, is not justified nor is it the answer. ❤️🩹
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We are deeply concerned about the situation in Gaza. We have lost contact with some of our Palestinian colleagues on the ground. We are particularly worried for the patients, medical staff and thousands of families taking shelter at Al Shifa hospital and other health facilities.
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Our new #preprint is out on #bioRxiv! Applying #spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution to 95 ovarian #cancer tumors, followed by high content #CRISPR screens, we identified immune evasion drivers at the genetic, cellular, and tissue level doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.16.5… (1/13)
ggplot bout to look reaaaaal cute 🤩 shoutout to data visualization colour palettes that are COLOUR BLIND FRIENDLY 🫶🏻
✨✨ New Package ✨✨
Happy to announce that I am soft launching another R color palette package, {MoMAColors} today! Currently has 35 palettes based around artwork at @MuseumModernArt.
Download Instruction and Palettes here: github.com/BlakeRMills/MoMAC…
#r4ds #dataviz #rstats
Nothing more gratifying than seeing @hartjackson’s work highlighted by the brilliant #AaronNewman @AaronNewmanLab whose group has provided so many valuable tools to understand spatial biology and profiling (i.e CIBERSORTx and EcoTyper, CytoSPACE) 👏🏻 #AACRtii23
…and just like that we shift gears from #AACRPan2023 to all things tumor immunology and immunotherapy - kicking us of off was an interesting talk from #CrystalMackall @MackallLab #AACRtii23 She shared some insightful key points: