2024
Enabling early lung cancer detection via inhalable sensors
January 5, 2024 | Read more from MIT News
2023
New Medium Mimics Metabolism
September 8, 2023 | Cell Chemical Biology | Read more from KI News
A simple paper test could offer early cancer diagnosis
April 25, 2023 | Nature Nanotechnology | Read more from MIT News
2022
Work from the Vander Heiden lab provides a mechanistic explanation for why hypoxic cancer cells depend on imported lipids for growth.
June 23, 2022 | Nature Metabolism | Read more: Columbia University Irving Medical Center, BioSpace
Congratulations to Ludwig Center members Sangeeta Bhatia and Michael Hemann on winning a 2022 Bose grant for ambitious ideas!
June 17, 2022 | Read more: MIT News
Ludwig Center members Tyler Jacks and Stefani Spranger collaborated with their KI colleague Forest White on deciphering the immunopeptidome in vivo to reveal new tumor antigens.
June 15, 2022 | Nature
Congratulations to Ludwig Center member Sangeeta Bhatia who was included in Fierce Pharma’s list of “Most influential people in biopharma” for her initiative to support women interested in starting their own biotech companies.
May 23, 2022
For the first time since 2019, the Ludwig Center at MIT gathered for an in-person retreat at MIT’s Endicott House. Presentations and posters made for lively discussion and connection.
May 5, 2022
Congratulations to Ludwig Center member Richard Hynes for being awarded the 2022 Stephen Schwartz Award for mentoring by the North American Vascular Biology Organization
May 5, 2022
A study from the Weinberg lab dives deeper into EMT to shed some (dimmer-switch) light on the process of metastasis
April 18, 2022 | Nature Cell Biology | Read more: Whitehead Institute
Ludwig Center at MIT member Sangeeta Bhatia co-authors a review on early cancer detection
March 18, 2022 | Science
Congratulations to Ludwig Center member Sangeeta Bhatia for making it on STAT’s STATUS List of top leaders and influencers in the life sciences, for her work on creating opportunities for women in STEM
March 2022 | STAT News
Ludwig Center at MIT welcomes two new faculty pilot members: Drs. Francisco J. Sánchez-Rivera and Yadira Soto-Feliciano
February 1, 2022
2021
Ludwig Center at MIT welcomes two new faculty members: Drs. Stefani Spranger and Jonathan Weissman
July 1, 2021
Congratulations to Ludwig Center member Matthew Vander Heiden for being selected as the new Director of MIT’s Koch Institute
April 1, 2021 | Read more: MIT News, Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, Endpoints News
A collaboration between MIT Ludwig Center member Matt Vander Heiden and Harvard Ludwig Center member Rakesh Jain highlights the role of fatty acid synthesis in breast cancer cells that have spread to the brain, potentially leading to new treatment strategies
April 1, 2021 | Nature Cancer | Read more: Mass General Press
Ludwig Center member Sangeeta Bhatia co-launches Future Founders, an initiative to increase female MIT faculty’s entrepreneurship in biotech, and supports wider efforts to support women in biotech
February 24, 2021 | Read more: Boston Globe, WGBH News
Robert Weinberg, director of the Ludwig Center at MIT, is a 2021 Japan Prize Foundation laureate in the field of Medical Science and Medicinal Science
January 29, 2021 | Read more: Japan Prize Foundation, MIT News, KI News
Congratulations to the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (@Ludwig_Cancer) and its global community on 50 years of advancing life-changing science.
2021
2020
The Weinberg Lab has determined how mesenchymal cancer cells may resist treatment; this work may allow researchers to make once-resistant tumors respond to certain cancer therapies
December 16, 2020 | Cancer Discovery | Read more: Whitehead Institute News
The Ludwig Center at MIT mourns the passing of faculty member Angelika Amon
October 29, 2020
Michael Hemann presents “New Mechanisms for Old Cancer Drugs” as part of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer seminar series
October 1, 2020
Vander Heiden Lab collaborates with Ludwig Center at Harvard
September 1, 2020 | Cell Metabolism | Read more: The Harvard Gazette
Allison Lau and colleagues in the Vander Heiden Lab dissect cell type-specific metabolism in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
July 10, 2020 | eLife | Read more: Science in Boston
Robert Weinberg presents “Effects of epithelial-mesenghymal polarization on carcinoma cell biology” as part of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer seminar series
May 26, 2020
Aviv Regev presents “Atlases as roadmaps to understanding tumors” as part of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer seminar series
May 7, 2020
Angelika Amon presents “How aneuploidy causes tumorigenesis” as part of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer seminar series
April 16, 2020
Tyler Jacks presents “Molecular dissection of tumor evolution” as part of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer seminar series
April 14, 2020
2019
This year’s annual retreat gathers members of the Ludwig Center for another inspiring session and some group bonding
May 7, 2019
2018
Ludwig Center members enjoy a successful retreat at MIT’s Endicott House
May 30, 2018
2017
Hemann and Lees Labs identify possible new strategy for halting brain tumors
September 28, 2017 | Cancer Cell
MIT’s Endicott House welcomes Ludwig Center faculty and trainees for their annual retreat
May 23, 2017
2016
Bhatia Lab uses light to control genome editing
August 25, 2016 | Angewandte Chemie
Bhatia and collagues program cancer-fighting bacteria
June 20, 2016 | Nature | Read more: Boston Magazine
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Masterclass with Tyler Jacks (video)
May 25, 2016
Ludwig Center faculty and trainees enjoy this year’s retreat
May 24, 2016
2015
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Masterclass with Robert Weinberg (video)
November 19, 2015
Bhatia Lab grabs headlines by diagnosing cancer with help from bacteria
May 27, 2015 | Science Translational Medicine | Read more: Scientific American (Audio); Boston Globe; Science; Los Angeles Times; BBC; BetaBoston
Ludwig Center faculty and trainees gather at MIT’s Endicott House for a full day retreat
May 19, 2015
2014
Jacks Lab puts CRISPR to the task of fast modeling of cancer mutations
October 22, 2014 | Nature
Hynes Lab identifies key to metastasis in how tumors escape
March 11, 2014 | eLife
Ludwig Cancer Research gives $90 million to MIT
January 6, 2014