For media inquiries regarding our work specifically, or cancer and immunotherapies more broadly, please email david.braun@yale.edu and please make sure to copy the Yale Cancer Center Media Relations team (anne.doerr@yale.edu)
Lab News
August 2023: A huge welcome to new postgraduate associates Vivien Moritz and Alia Meliki!
July 2023: The BraunLab is extremely grateful to receive an NIH/NCI R37 MERIT Award and Department of Defense Idea Development Award to support our research.
July 2023: A busy (and fun!) summer. Grateful to have summer students Shawn Gregory (high school student in the Discovery to Cure program), Elena Ahjem (medical student from the University of Cambridge), Ayjha Brown (Emory undergraduate student and Yale BioMed Amgen Scholar), and Zhaochen Ye (Peking University undergraduate student) join the lab.
May 2023: A big welcome to new graduate students joining the lab - Jess Graham, Frankie Scallo, and Lena Wirth!
April 2023: The BraunLab received an Idea Development Award from the Department of Defense (Kidney Cancer Research Program) for work on patient-derived models.
February 2023: The BraunLab received the Young Physician-Scientist Award from the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI).
September 2022: The BraunLab received the “Trailblazer Award” from the Kidney Cancer Association.
August, 2022: Lots of new faces in the lab - big welcome to Deepak Poduval (associate research scientist), Soki Kashima (post-doc), Alec Yang (internal medicine resident), and Valisha Shah (computational biologist)!
July 6, 2022: Welcome to Chris Labaki and Renée Maria Saliby, who both joined the lab as post-docs (jointly with mentors at DFCI).
June 16, 2022: We are thrilled to have Harry Kane and Miya Hugaboom both join the lab.
June 6, 2022: We are excited to have Katrine Madsen join the lab.
January 24, 2022: A big WELCOME to Nick Schindler, who joined the lab as a research associate.
January 1, 2022: The BraunLab officially opens at Yale! Please email david.braun@yale.edu if you are interested in joining the team.
December 22, 2021: The BraunLab is awarded the “Spatial Multiomics Grant Award” from Akoya Biosciences
Research Features
November 2023: Soki Kashima and Miya Hugaboom present their research at the SITC Annual Meeting.
September 2023: David Braun presents the laboratory’s research at the DF/HCC Kidney Cancer Program seminar and the Yale Immunobiology Seminar Series.
August 2023: David Braun presents the laboratory’s research at the New York Genome Center
July 2023: The BraunLab attends the Kidney Cancer Research Summit in Boston! Presentations by Renee Maria Saliby, Chris Labaki, Soki Kashima, Hanna Soulati, Katherine Sadak, and David Braun.
June 2023: Miya Hugaboom and David Braun present at the AACR Special Conference on Kidney Cancer.
June 2023: David Braun provides a discussion on the latest kidney cancer clinical trials at the ASCO Annual Meeting
April 2023: David Braun presents the laboratory’s research at Brown’s Center for Clinical Cancer Informatics and Data Science.
December 2022: David Braun presents the laboratory’s research at the Human Translational Immunology / Yale Center for Immuno-Oncology seminar and at the Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds
November 2022: David Braun delivers the Keynote Lecture at the Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting Kidney Cancer Course.
October 2022: Chris Labaki and Renée Maria Saliby were both selected to give oral presentations at the Kidney Cancer Research Summit (program here). Chris presented his single-cell analysis of chromophobe RCC and other oncocytic neoplasms, and Renée discussed her work on transcriptional subtyping of ccRCC and relationship to therapeutic response.
September 2022: David Braun discusses results from clinical trials of a CLDN6-targeting CAR T cell plus mRNA vaccine, and a PRAME x CD3 ImmTAC at the ESMO Congress 2022 (Investigational Immunotherapy Track) in Paris.
June 2022: David Braun presents initial results from a personalized neoantigen cancer vaccine study in RCC at the Keystone Symposium on Cancer Neoantigens, Vaccines, and Viruses.
March 2022: Out in the New England Journal of Medicine, our review on recent single-cell work across tumor types, and our perspective on where the field is moving.
May 2021: Our Cancer Cell paper is featured on the cover! For a nice summary, please see the Preview article in Cancer Cell and the Research Highlight in Nature Reviews Urology.
March 11, 2021: Our recent Cancer Cell paper on progressive immune dysfunction with advancing disease stage in kidney cancer featured by the Broad Institute and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. See additional coverage in EurekAlert! and Bioengineer.
May 2020: See coverage of our Nature Medicine article on immunogenomic determinants of response to PD-1 blockade: FierceBiotech, EurekAlert!, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, eCancer, Medical Xpress, Newswise, News-Medical, Science Codex, Science NewsNet, and UroToday.
April 25, 2019: An interview with HemOnc Today about our cancer vaccine work.
January 25, 2019: The ASCO Post discussing our personalized cancer vaccine work.
January 9, 2019: Read about our personalized neoantigen vaccine study in kidney cancer, highlighted by Harvard Medical School.
January 7, 2019: A Dana-Farber Press Release on our cancer vaccine study.
Media
July 12, 2023: David Braun discusses the laboratory’s work with VuMedi.
July 10, 2023: David Braun provides an expert point-of-view for ASCO Post.
June 28, 2023: David Braun discusses the latest in RCC with MedPage Today.
June 22, 2023: The BraunLab discussed our work and the important of physician-scientists with Olympic Gold Medal Figure Skater Nathan Chen.
June 5, 2023: David Braun discussed new developments in RCC with ASCO daily news (and here)
June 4, 2023: David Braun discusses the latest research in kidney cancer, from the lab to clinic, with VJOncology.
May 24, 2023: Soki Kashima’s article is featured on UroToday.
May 23, 2023: David Braun discusses misconceptions and battling self-blame: about renal cancer in the Black American population.
May 16, 2023: David Braun discusses the latest in RCC with Rana McKay on GU Oncology Now.
May 3, 2023: David Braun discusses single-cell sequencing and how it can help in RCC on MedScape Podcast.
March 22, 2023: David Braun discusses immunotherapy for RCC as part of the SITC Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy Focus on Genitourinary Cancers.
March 1, 2023: David Braun discusses research from the lab on SLAMF7+ CD8+ T cells in nivolumab resistant renal cell carcinoma.
February 14, 2023: David Braun discusses later line therapies with GUOncologyNow.
December 23, 2022: David Braun discusses systemic therapies for advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma on VuMedi.
October 11, 2022: David Braun discusses the landscape of systemic therapies at the ASCO Post Roundtable.
June 30, 2022: David Braun presents his thoughts on recent RCC studies presents at ASCO.
May 18, 2022: David Braun speaks on OncLive’s RCC panel.
March 31, 2022: David Braun speaks at Yale’s “Smilow Shares” program
February 20, 2022: David Braun quoted in The Guardian / The Observer.
February 20, 2022: David Braun interviewed on WNPR / Cancer Answers
October 12, 2021: David Braun quoted in the Financial Times.
August 25, 2021: David Braun and one of his patients interviewed on WEEI and NESN.
July 23, 2021: David Braun quoted in Deutsche Welle.
July 14, 2021: Watch an interview with David Braun on CGTN TV.
July 8, 2021: David Braun quoted in National Geographic.
June 19, 2021: Our work is featured in the Boston Herald, in an article by Alexi Cohan.
June 19, 2021: David Braun quoted in USA Today.
June 4, 2021: David Braun interviewed on “And Another Thing” on New England Public Media.
March 24, 2021: David Braun is interview by Eva Pilgrim on ABC New Live.
