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Yadira Soto-Feliciano earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 2008 and a PhD in Biology from MIT in 2016. During her doctoral studies, she worked in the laboratory of Professor Michael T. Hemann at Koch Institute/MIT, using mouse models and functional genomics to understand the mechanisms behind cell identity and lineage plasticity in leukemia. Her research highlighted the importance of epigenetic alterations as a central mechanism in human diseases such as cancer, prompting her pursuit of postdoctoral training focused on chromatin biology and epigenetic mechanisms. She completed her postdoctoral research at Rockefeller University under Dr. David Allis in 2021, supported by the Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship. She also received the NIH/NIGMS K99/R00 award for her work that bridges cancer biology with functional genomics and traditional chromatin biology. In 2022, Soto-Feliciano joined the faculty at MIT as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and as a member of the Koch Institute, also receiving the Howard S. and Linda B. Stern Career Development Professorship. She was awarded the 2022 V Foundation Award and the 2023 AACR Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award for her contributions to cancer research.
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Joined the MIT faculty, focusing on chromatin biology and cancer research.