Using gut bacteria to activate the immune system to fight cancer.
Located in the Charlestown Navy Yard, The Gazzaniga Lab is part of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Molecular Pathology Unit and Center for Cancer Research and the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School
Gazzaniga Lab News
October 2025: Francesca wins the poster Award at the 2025 AACR Grantee Summmit
June 2025: Summer students are here! Welcome Emily Liu as a high school intern, Sheena He as a Harvard Immunology Summer Program student from Hawaii, and Ashley Killian as a Harvard Amgen Scholar from UC Berkeley!
April 2025: Emily Liu is the second rotation student!
March 2025: Nattaya “Mind” Duangthim joins the lab for a 10 month rotation from Thailand!
November 2024: Francesca is awarded the Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Career Development Award in partnership with Pelatonia and AACR
September 2024: Naira Gutiez Garcia joins the lab for a 3 month rotation from Spain!
July 2024: Francesca is awarded the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research Spark Award and the Clinical Laboratory Integration Program Grant from the Cancer Research Institute
June 2024: Rachel Lim and Sara Lopez-Quintana join the lab for summer internships
January 2024: My Nguyen joins the lab as our second Harvard undergrad!
January 2024: Thanpisit “Tutor” Lomphithak joins the lab as our second postdoc!
September 2023: Cathleen Krabak is the first rotation student!
December 2023: Francesca’s postdoc paper was one of the 10 highlighted papers from HMS in 2023: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/year-hms-science?utm_source=AcousticMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HMNews_122023%20(2)%20remainder&utm_content=
October 2023: Francesca is awarded a Pilot Feasibility Grant from the Center for Study of Irritable Bowel Disease
August 2023: Shumeng Hao joins the lab as our first postdoc!
July 2023: Katelyn Geisler and Jack White join the lab for their Northeastern Co-op
June 2023: Lowi Gebremedhin, Laura Childs, and Rachel Lim join the lab for summer research
May 3rd 2023: Co-first author paper from Francesca’s postdoc is out showing that the gut microbiome impacts the immune response to cancer immunotherapy by suppressing PD-L2/RGMb.
Paper link: https://rdcu.be/dbhoh
HMS press release: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/boost-cancer-immunotherapys-fighting-power-look-gut-0
February 2nd 2023: Our first Harvard undergrad has joined the lab. Welcome Sneha!
January 4th, 2023: Starting off 2023 with two new Northeastern Co-op students. Welcome Ashley and Rowan!
September 8th 2023: Tsering Yanortsang has joined the lab as our lab manager and gnotobiotic expert!
May 1st, 2022: First day of Gazzaniga Lab! Come Join us!