We are currently recruiting candidates for post-doctoral positions in the lab. If you are interested in cancer neuroscience and want to be involved in, please send your CV and cover letter to Dr. Humsa Venkatesh ([email protected]). Come join us where cancer meets neuroscience!

Thank you to the AACR for the opportunity to share our lab's work on this important topic. Big thanks to the organizers @michellemonje.bsky.social, Mario Suva, and Stephen Bagley.

So proud of Eleena Sherman who will be leaving us to join the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh in fall as a PhD student. So excited to see all your future work! We'll miss you!

Congrats to @lexifranklin39.bsky.social for her Top Poster Presentation Award in Neurobiology at the 2026 Cancer Neuroscience Symposium sponsored by MD Anderson Cancer Center. Way to go Lexi, excellent work! @mdanderson.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social

So proud of Rachel Davis who was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the Cancer Neuroscience Symposium 2026 sponsored by MD Anderson's Cancer Neuroscience Program. Congrats Rachel! @mdanderson.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social

The Venkatesh lab is looking for a junior technician to join us this summer. If you are interested in working in cancer neuroscience, check out the job description below and see if it is a good fit for your goals! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Meet Hannah Farnsworth on #HumansofHBI brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/h... @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social

Submit an abstract by January 12 for the AACR Special Conference on Brain Cancer (March 23-25, 2026; Philadelphia), chaired by Stephen J. Bagley, Michelle Monje, and Mario L. Suva. Learn more: buff.ly/9MkKUbq #AACRbrain26 @michellemonje.bsky.social

Happy to have one of our amazing grad students, Hannah Farnsworth, featured in @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social 's #HumansofHBI. You can check out the article here and learn more about Hannah's work in the lab! brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/h...

📢 Registration (free!) for the NCI webinar series 'Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System' is open! 🧠🔬 Amongst many excellent speakers, Frank Winkler and @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social discuss #cancerneuroscience of #brainmetastasis 📅 6 exciting topics are covered by leaders in the field 💡!

Happy Halloween from the Venkatesh Lab! @mgbresearch.bsky.social

Venkatesh Lab Fall Outing -- Apple Picking!

Big thanks to @mgbresearch.bsky.social for featuring our lab's first paper.

Exciting time to be in Cancer Neuroscience! Thank you to The Transmitter for featuring our lab's work.

Please join us on 10/3 at 3pm at the Shaw-Roxbury Branch of the @bpl.boston.gov! All ages welcome!

Great to see all our student's shine at the @cshlnews.bsky.social's Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis meeting! Props to Rachel Davis & Hannah Farnsworth for a job well done on their poster presentations. Very proud of all our hardworking future PhDs!

Signalling between neurons and tumour cells in the lung and brain promotes the growth of small-cell lung cancer go.nature.com/4gzoMmI

So proud of Lexi Franklin, who delivered an outstanding talk at @cshlnews.bsky.social’s Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis meeting yesterday! Keep an eye out for more exciting work from our lab, Rachel Davis and Hannah Farnsworth will be presenting their posters soon!

We are excited to share the Venkatesh Lab’s first publication in collaboration with @michellemonje.bsky.social team uncovering how neuronal activity influences the progression of small cell lung cancer #SCLC in the lung and brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out the Venkatesh lab's new paper in Nature, where we uncover how neural activity drives small cell lung cancer (SCLC) progression. Grateful to my PI Humsa Venkatesh, my co-first author Solomiia Savchuk, & a huge thanks to all the incredible co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The cancer hijacking story expands..... 2 new reports of small cell lung cancer provide evidence for hijacking of neurons, formation of synapses, to promote tumor growth. May help to come up with therapies for this very aggressive, fatal form of cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are excited to welcome Jacqueline Garcia to the Venkatesh Lab! Jacqueline completed her PhD in Cellular, Molecular, & Developmental Biology at Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2025 as a member of Dr. Chris Dulla’s lab.

Scientists are making surprising discoveries about the connections between cancer and the nervous system. Harvard Medicine Magazine profiles the research of William Hwang, Richard Wong, and @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social. @harvardmed.bsky.social magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/neu...

The Venkatesh Lab is looking for a Sr. Lab Technician to help support ongoing projects focused on the peripheral nervous system & its interactions with cancers. Check out the posting below! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MGBExt...

The lab is celebrating Hannah Hoffman for a job well done and for passing her Preliminary Qualifying Exam! 🎇Congratulations Hannah!

#standupforscience Boston! @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social

Do you have a background in cancer research or neuroscience? The Venkatesh Lab is expanding its team & seeking talented individuals at all levels. If you're passionate about cutting-edge research at the intersection of cancer and neuroscience, we'd love to hear from you!

Thanks to the efforts of our ephys scientist, Garrett Scarpa, and Scientifica, the Venkatesh lab has our ephys rig up and running!

SAVE THE DATE Discuss the interactions between the nervous system and cancer in our first @helloeacr.bsky.social conference on #CancerNeuroscience next year! 🗓️ Oct. 14-16, 2025 📍Bilbao, Spain 📥 Abstracts due June 30, 2025 📥 Register by Sept. 15, 2025 For more info, visit eacr.org/conference/c...

Thrilled to present at the joint session of #ksmetastasis25 and #kscancerneuroscience25! Huge thanks to everyone who came out to hear about our lab's work!

Happy holidays from the Venkatesh lab!! 🎄🌟

So proud of rising cancer neuroscience superstars @SavchukSol and Hannah Farnsworth on their beautiful presentations defining neuron brain tumor interactions at #SNO2024!

Join Dr. Venkatesh on December 5th for an engaging discussion on The Neural Regulation of Cancer and our lab's work. The event is free and open to the public as well as via zoom. Register here: tinyurl.com/3d42jf4n

#FluorescenceFriday offering for our new account! SCLC Culture

Hello Bluesky! We are the Venkatesh Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital! We are a cancer neuroscience lab that studies the electrical components of tumor pathophysiology and how the brain and its neurons can control and facilitate disease progression. 🧪