Joan Brugge, Ph.D.

Joan Brugge, Ph.D.

Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology (HMS)
Director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard

Joan Brugge, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in virology from Baylor College of Medicine, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Medical Center. After professorships at SUNY, Stony Brook and the University of Pennsylvania, where she was an HHMI investigator, she became the Scientific Director and Senior VP at ARIAD Pharmaceuticals. She returned to academia as Professor of Cell Biology at HMS in 1997, and was Chair of the department from 2004-2014. She became Co-Director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard in 2014. She currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Allen Institute of Cell Sciences.

The Brugge laboratory is investigating the cellular processes and pathways that are involved in normal morphogenesis of epithelial tissues as well as those involved in the initiation and progression of epithelial tumors.

Harvard Medical School

Dept. of Cell Biology, C-513

240 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

A transcriptional response to replication stress selectively expands a subset of Brca2-mutant mammary epithelial cells.
Authors: Authors: Najafabadi MG, Gray GK, Kong LR, Gupta K, Perera D, Naylor H, Brugge JS, Venkitaraman AR, Shehata M.
Nat Commun
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Preclinical Efficacy of the Antibody-Drug Conjugate CLDN6-23-ADC for the Treatment of CLDN6-Positive Solid Tumors.
Authors: Authors: McDermott MSJ, O'Brien NA, Hoffstrom B, Gong K, Lu M, Zhang J, Luo T, Liang M, Jia W, Hong JJ, Chau K, Davenport S, Xie B, Press MF, Panayiotou R, Handly-Santana A, Brugge JS, Presta L, Glaspy J, Slamon DJ.
Clin Cancer Res
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Synergistic combination therapy delivered via layer-by-layer nanoparticles induces solid tumor regression of ovarian cancer.
Authors: Authors: Kong S, Moharil P, Handly-Santana A, Boehnke N, Panayiotou R, Gomerdinger V, Covarrubias G, Pires IS, Zervantonakis I, Brugge J, Hammond PT.
Bioeng Transl Med
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Biographical Feature: Marc S. Collett (23 May 1951-11 June 2022): the Battle against Viral Disease Has Lost a Valiant Warrior, and the World Has Lost a Splendid Human Being.
Authors: Authors: Glassman KF, Brugge JS, Purchio AF, Kakach LT, Fuerst TR, Woods RM, Stover CK, Chunduru SK, Hincks JR, McKinlay MA, Nash CH, Pevear DC, Monath TP, Rice CM, Peters P.
J Virol
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AXL and Error-Prone DNA Replication Confer Drug Resistance and Offer Strategies to Treat EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer.
Authors: Authors: Noronha A, Belugali Nataraj N, Lee JS, Zhitomirsky B, Oren Y, Oster S, Lindzen M, Mukherjee S, Will R, Ghosh S, Simoni-Nieves A, Verma A, Chatterjee R, Borgoni S, Robinson W, Sinha S, Brandis A, Kerr DL, Wu W, Sekar A, Giri S, Chung Y, Drago-Garcia D, Danysh BP, Lauriola M, Fiorentino M, Ardizzoni A, Oren M, Blakely CM, Ezike J, Wiemann S, Parida L, Bivona TG, Aqeilan RI, Brugge JS, Regev A, Getz G, Ruppin E, Yarden Y.
Cancer Discov
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A human breast atlas integrating single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics.
Authors: Authors: Gray GK, Li CM, Rosenbluth JM, Selfors LM, Girnius N, Lin JR, Schackmann RCJ, Goh WL, Moore K, Shapiro HK, Mei S, D'Andrea K, Nathanson KL, Sorger PK, Santagata S, Regev A, Garber JE, Dillon DA, Brugge JS.
Dev Cell
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Therapy resistance: opportunities created by adaptive responses to targeted therapies in cancer.
Authors: Authors: Labrie M, Brugge JS, Mills GB, Zervantonakis IK.
Nat Rev Cancer
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Clonal populations of a human TNBC model display significant functional heterogeneity and divergent growth dynamics in distinct contexts.
Authors: Authors: Kuiken HJ, Dhakal S, Selfors LM, Friend CM, Zhang T, Callari M, Schackmann RCJ, Gray GK, Crowdis J, Bhang HC, Baslan T, Stegmeier F, Gygi SP, Caldas C, Brugge JS.
Oncogene
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Cycling cancer persister cells arise from lineages with distinct programs.
Authors: Authors: Oren Y, Tsabar M, Cuoco MS, Amir-Zilberstein L, Cabanos HF, Hütter JC, Hu B, Thakore PI, Tabaka M, Fulco CP, Colgan W, Cuevas BM, Hurvitz SA, Slamon DJ, Deik A, Pierce KA, Clish C, Hata AN, Zaganjor E, Lahav G, Politi K, Brugge JS, Regev A.
Nature
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Metabolic perturbations sensitize triple-negative breast cancers to apoptosis induced by BH3 mimetics.
Authors: Authors: Daniels VW, Zoeller JJ, van Gastel N, McQueeney KE, Parvin S, Potter DS, Fell GG, Ferreira VG, Yilma B, Gupta R, Spetz J, Bhola PD, Endress JE, Harris IS, Carrilho E, Sarosiek KA, Scadden DT, Brugge JS, Letai A.
Sci Signal
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