Congratulations to Colin Skeen for his recent paper submission! His work presents a standardized pre-PCR enrichment method to improve mutation profiling of circulating cell-free DNA. The manuscript is currently available as a preprint on bioRxiv.

Congratulations to Sanaya Tonsekar and Terry Chen on receiving funding for Spring semester from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program! At the conclusion of the semester, both will present their research at the BU Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

We are excited to host three new rotation students in the Pratt Lab. Welcome to Suraj Math (BS Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University), Heather Murray (BS Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University), and Sicheng Pang (BS Engineering Science, Smith College).

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.