Madeleine Oudin |
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Principal Investigator
AssociateProfessor of Biomedical Engineering Hometown: Paris, France Education: Post-doc, MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, 2012-2017 PhD Neuroscience, King's College London, 2011 MSc Pharmacology, King's College London, 2007 BSc Biochemistry, McGill University, 2006 Email: [email protected] |
Madeleine grew up in Paris, France in a multicultural environment, and completed a BSc in Biochemistry at McGill University, a MSc in Pharmacology and a PhD in Neuroscience from King’s College London, UK. She completed her post-doctoral work in Prof. Frank Gertler’s lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, trying to understand how metastasis, the dissemination of tumor cells throughout the body, occurs and how it affects response to chemotherapy. To find out more about her research, listen to this podcast! She started at Tufts University as an Assistant Professor in January 2018. She has received numerous awards for her research such as the DP2 New Innovator Award in 2021 and the 2020 CMBE Rising Star Award and was voted Exemplary Engineer by the graduate students in her department 3 years in a row. She is committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in biomedical engineering, and is the founding member of the BME DEI committee, a member of the Tufts School of Engineering DEIJT Committee, a member of the BMES UNITE faculty group and co-organizer of the UNITE seminar series. When she is not working hard in the lab, she enjoys traveling around the world, discovering new places and doing high-risk, high-adrenaline sports like flying trapeze and rock climbing.
Learn more about Prof. Oudin's career: Lady Scientist Podcast
Learn more about Prof. Oudin's career: Lady Scientist Podcast
Post-Docs
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Hometown: Yokohama, Japan
Education: PhD, Bioengineering, The University of Tokyo, 2021 MEng, Bioengineering, The University of Tokyo, 2018 BEng, Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, 2016 Email: [email protected] Research Interests: How chemotherapy affects cancer metastasis, changes in biophysical properties of ECM molecules during cancer metastasis, how to successfully integrate the findings of cell biology and protein science ANKIT PANDEYHometown: Prayagraj, India
Education: Ph.D. -Animal biotechnology and biomedical sciences-University of Massachusetts, Amherst-2024 M.Tech.- Biological Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India-2018 B.Tech.- Industrial Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India-2015 Email: ankit[email protected] Research Interests: Studying the interaction between sensory nerves and breast cancer, and how this crosstalk leads to changes in the tumor microenvironment to promote disease progression. |
GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Graduate student, CMDB Program, 3rd year
Hometown: Alton, New Hampshire Education: BS Biochemistry, Suffolk University 2019 Email: [email protected] Research Interests: Investigating the role sodium ion channel mutations in epilepsy |
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MD/PhD Student, 3rd year, CMDB Program, 2nd year
Hometown: San Diego, California Education: BS in Human Science, Georgetown University, 2018 Email: [email protected] Research interests: Innervation in breast cancer, influence of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy and gene therapy. |
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CRYSTAL ZHANGGraduate student, CMDB Program, 2nd year
Hometown: Beijing, China Education: BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Brown University 2019 Email: [email protected] Research Interests: Electric properties of tumor cells, cancer metastasis, developmental biology |
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THOMAS GERTONGraduate student, BME, 1st year
Hometown: Manchester, New Hampshire Education: BS Biotechnology, University of New Hampshire 2022, MS Biotechnology, University of New Hampshire 2023 Research Interests: The interaction between cancer cells and the extracellular matrix and how we can develop targeted treatment methodologies for successful clinical application. |
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JACKIE FAHEYPhD student, GSBS Neuroscience, 1st yearHometown: Stamford, Connecticut
Education: BS Neurobiology, University of Wisconsin – Madison 2022 Email: [email protected] Research Interests: How sodium channel mutations influence neurodevelopment and epilepsy, and the exploration of potential treatments. |
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MALLORY CARONGraduate student, GMCB program, 1st year
Hometown: Rockport, Maine Education: BA Biology, Bates College 2021 Email: [email protected] Research interests: Breast cancer cell metastasis, chemotherapy responsiveness, tumor innervation, and the potential role of the menstrual cycle. |
RESEARCH STAFF
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AUDREY PIERCEResearch Associate
Hometown: Hinsdale, Massachusetts Education: BS Biochemistry, Temple University 2020 Email: [email protected] Research Interests: Factors that influence cancer metastasis, genetic influences of cancer development, immunotherapy, cancer's impact on the immune system |
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS
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STEFFY JULLIANUndergraduate researcher, Tufts Summer Scholar
Hometown: San José, Costa Rica Education: Pursuing BS in Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 2026 Research Interests: electric properties of tumor cells, the mechanisms behind the synergy of chemotherapy drugs and ion channel modulators. |
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CLARE KELLYUndergraduate Researcher
Hometown: Ambler, Pennsylvania Education: Pursuing a BS in Biomedical Engineering 2027 Email: [email protected] Research Interests: The influence of chemotherapy on cancer cells and the extracellular matrix, interactions between chemotherapy and the immune system, applications of tissue engineering in cancer research |
Lab Alumni
Former post-doctoral fellows:
Dr. Samantha Payne, post-doctoral fellow, 2018-2021, now Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph
Dr. Charlotte Kelley, post-doctoral fellow, 2020-2021, now Scientist at Sai Life Sciences
Dr. Allison Sirois, post-doctoral fellow, 2020, now faculty, Quinnipiac University
Former PhD students:
Sydney Conner, PhD in Biomedical Engineering, 2019-2023, now a post-doctoral fellow in the Gürsoy lab at the NY Genome Institute
Justinne Guarin, PhD in Biomedical Engineering 2018-2023, now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare
Will (Thanh) Le, PhD in Biomedical Engineering, 2018-2022, now a Clinical Research Specialist at Vinmec Healthcare System, Vietnam
Jackson Fatherree, PhD in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology, 2018-2022, now a post-doctoral fellow in the McPhearson Lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Former MSc students:
Liyi Peng, MSc in Biomedical Engineering 2025 with thesis
Hannah Borges, MSc in Biomedical Engineering 2024 with thesis
Atef Fayed, MSc in Biology 2022
Priyanka Ram, MSc in Biomedical Engineering 2021 with thesis, now working at Millipore
Logan Rubio, MSc in Biomedical Engineering 2021 with thesis, now working at Draper Labs
Victory Unigwe, MSc in Biomedical Engineering 2021 with thesis, now working at Cedilla Therapeutics
Brendon Clover, MSc in Biomedical Engineering 2019, January-October 2018, now at Silk Therapeutics
Janani Baskaran, BSc/MSc in Biomedical Engineering 2020, now a graduate student at Yale University in BME
Former staff
Savannah Parker, Research Technician, 2022-2024, now PhD student at Rutgers University
Ken Salhany, Research Associate, 2021-2022
Andrew Wishart, Research Associate, 2017-2019
Former Undergraduate Researchers:
Nia Goodall, undergraduate researcher 2024-2025, Tufts University Class of 2025
Katie Lew, SEPA STEM Fellow 2023-2024,Tufts University Class of 2025
Tolulepe Adewumi, Laidlaw Scholar 2023, 2023-2024, Tufts University Class of 2025
Harrison Wilson, Isabel Hansmann, Hannah Kang, Cassidy Ho, BME7/8 2023-2024
Jack Meehan, Class of 2024
Christian Merino, summer researcher, 2023, Tufts University Class of 2025
Michelle Shub, Malia Brooks, Chiara Romano, Emily Henrich, BME 7/8, 2022-2023
Jeanne Duong, Jasmine Kwan, Deepti Srinivasan, BME 7/8, 2022-2023
Kevin Lyons, Ariana Barreiro, Maia Buckwald, BME 7/8, 2022-2023, recipient of BME Senior Prize
Diamond Mensah, Tufts Summer Scholar 2021, Goldwater Scholar 2022, Tufts University Class of 2023, now research associate
Maia Backwald, 2020-2023, Tufts University Class of 2023,
Emily Henrich, Astronaut Fellow, 2020-2023, Tufts University Class of 2023, now PhD student at Rice University
Deepti Srinivasan, Laidlaw Scholar 2021, 2019-2023, Tufts University Class of 2023, now student at Tufts Medical School
Rachel McGinn, Laidlaw Scholar 2020, Goldwater Scholar 2021, NSF GRFP awardee 2022, 2019-2022, Tufts University Class of 2022, now PhD student at MIT BE
Nina Pittas, Laidlaw Scholar 2019, 2019-2020, Tufts University Class of 2021
Sara Blake, LSAMP Fellow, Tufts University Class of 2021
Sharad Mahajan, Spring 2020, Research for credit, Tufts Class of 2022
Elli Diaz, Rachel McGinn, Becca Crawley, BME 3/4, BME 7/8, 2019-2022, recipient of BME Senior Prize
Marguerite Salamone, Risa Williams, Blake McIntyre, BME7/8, 2019-2020, Tufts University Class of 2020
Joanna Peng, Tufts Summer Scholar 2019, 2019-2020, Chemical Engineering Major, Tufts University Class of 2020
Claire Dunn, Laidlaw Scholar 2018, 2018-2020, Biology Major, Tufts University Class of 2020
Nandita Subbiah, undergraduate researcher, Computer Science Major, Tufts University Class of 2021, Fall 2019
Rebecca Tang, undergraduate researcher, Biology Major, Tufts University Class of 2021, Summer 2019
Anna Weldy, Chemical Engineering Major, University of Rochester Class of 2020, NSF REU Summer student 2019
Sakshi Wadwha and Janani Baskaran, BME7/8, 2018-2019, Senior Capstone first prize winners, Tufts University Class of 2019
Gabrielle Munoz, undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019, Tufts University Class of 2019
Lily Hayes, Tufts Summer Scholar 2018, 2018-2019, Tufts University Class of 2019
Erin Soule-Albridge and Sarah Mackin, BME 3 and 4 Class project, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
Annika Gallandt, Biology Major and Anthropology Minor, Macalester College Class of 2019, NSF REU Summer student 2018
Kelly Ward, Reading Memorial High School Class of 2019, Summer High School TUBERs program 2018
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you are an undergraduate researcher, please send Professor Oudin an email. If you are interested in graduate school in the BME department at Tufts, please see this page. If you are interested in post-doctoral opportunities in the lab, please contact Professor Oudin directly with a CV, your research interests and references.
About the lab:
Our lab will use an interdisciplinary approach to tackle metastasis and drug resistance, working at the intersection of biology, engineering and translational research. We will combine cell biology, microfluidics, tissue engineering, intravital imaging, systems biology and implantable devices. The lab is located at Tufts University in the Biomedical Engineering Department in Boston. We are in a brand new interdisciplinary building with biologists, chemical and biological engineers with open lab space and shared core facilities. We will closely collaborate with cancer researchers and clinicians at Tufts and in the Boston area.
About the lab:
Our lab will use an interdisciplinary approach to tackle metastasis and drug resistance, working at the intersection of biology, engineering and translational research. We will combine cell biology, microfluidics, tissue engineering, intravital imaging, systems biology and implantable devices. The lab is located at Tufts University in the Biomedical Engineering Department in Boston. We are in a brand new interdisciplinary building with biologists, chemical and biological engineers with open lab space and shared core facilities. We will closely collaborate with cancer researchers and clinicians at Tufts and in the Boston area.