Welcome to the Pratt Laboratory
We are an engineering-driven cancer research laboratory. Our mission is the design of liquid biopsy assays for non-invasive cancer monitoring. We work at the interface of engineering, chemical biology, and oncology.
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Prof. Pratt attended and presented at the Advances in Cancer Early Detection - Tumorigenesis and the Microenvironment Symposium sponsored by the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and its Cancer Cell Biology and Cancer Risk, Prevention, and Early Detection programs, the DFCI Centers for Early Detection and Interception, and the MGH Cancer Early Detection and Diagnostics Clinic.
We are very excited to extend a warm welcome to our newest undergraduate researchers: Genesis Cely (BME), Mithun Makam (BMB), and Sanaya Tonsekar (Biology). They are all sophomores at Boston University.
Prof. Pratt presented at the 10th annual AACR Special Conference on Pancreatic Cancer in the plenary session on Early Detection and Interception of Precursor Lesions. Her talk was entitled “Multimodal tools for noninvasive cancer monitoring.
We are excited to host three new rotation students in the Pratt Lab. Welcome to Victoria Lozano Escarra (BS Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology), Liz Medvedeva (BS Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh), and Ted Rock (BS Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh).
Prof. Pratt is one of seven early-career recipients recognized by the foundation for innovative research on critical areas in neuroscience, cancer, immunology, and pain. Prof. Pratt is the first ever recipient from Boston University in the award’s 48-year history.