Associate Professor @GWCancer @GWSMHS via @haverfordedu @WUSTL @JohnsHopkins. Epigenetics, transposable elements, cancer immunology, ovarian cancer.
Joined June 2019
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
7 May 2025
A huge congratulations to the #GWIBSFamily PhD students who earned awards at our 2025 SMHS Research Showcase last week, and a big thank-you to our faculty judges who made the tough decisions! @KevinANestler @ShathaSalameh_ @C_M3lo_97 tinyurl.com/3zt9y9ya
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
26 Apr 2025
Fantastic science at #AACR25 today! So inspiring to see @CancerGrand Challenges like extrachromosomal DNAs #ecDNAs 🧬⭕ (team eDyNAmiC!) and transposable elements 🦘🧬 (key for the Dark Proteome!) highlighted in the 🎓educational sessions. Really cool science being discussed 🔬!
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
18 Mar 2025
OCRA is proud to announce the first 3 recipients of the $6 million we’ve awarded to support groundbreaking ovarian & related gyn cancer research in 2025 bit.ly/4ix1ZYE. And we’re not stopping there—stay tuned as we continue to expand our investment in research this year.
ALT Image of OCRA grantee Katherine Chiappinelli, PhD, standing in the GW Cancer Center. Text reads: OCRA Announces Recipients of 2025 Collaborative Research Development Grants.
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
18 Mar 2025
Thrilled to share our @um_svilab work published today in @jclinicalinvest focused on harnessing viral mimicry to activate immunotherapy for #GBM. Thanks to all of my @SylvesterCancer @UMneurosurgery colleagues for their invaluable contributions!
jci.org/articles/view/183745
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Grateful for the funding to explore high risk projects for novel cancer immunotherapies!! You can hear a bit about the work we and the other amazing Scholars do in this video.
5 Mar 2025
Gilead’s Research Scholars Program supports investigators around the world as they help transform scientific understanding, address knowledge gaps and drive medical breakthroughs. Watch the video to hear from three scholars working to advance cancer care: gilead.inc/4kCE1wK
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
12 Mar 2025
Gilead Research Scholars Program funds impactful research. So important to have this funding for young investigators, particularly at this time where funding is so challenging.
gilead.inc/4kCE1wK
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Ting Wang, Tommy Kaplan, Daniel De Carvalho, and Katherine B. Chiappinelli discussed "Normal and Abnormal Methylation Patterns and Detection" at the AACR Conference on DNA Methylation, Clonal Hematopoiesis, and Cancer.
#AACRmethylation25 @twang5 @decarvalho_lab @ChiappinelliLab
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
17 Jan 2025
Thank you to @decarvalho_lab and @SajidMarhon for their leadership on this study, and all team members who made this study possible! This study represents an exciting new direction towards understanding how dsRNAs promote tumorigenesis. We're excited to expand further!
17 Jan 2025
Our recent work on Viral mimicry escape in Ovarian Cancer is out at Cancer Discovery @CD_AACR. aacrjournals.org/cancerdisco…
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
15 Jan 2025
✨NEW CONFERENCE✨We are so pleased to announce our brand new 'Endogenous Retrotransposable Elements & Human Diseases' Conference will be taking place 03-06 Nov 2025, in Mexico🇲🇽 Full speaker line-up coming soon! 👀 #EREHD25
More information: bit.ly/4ahy8jM
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📣 Calling all rising undergraduate juniors & seniors!
Applications are open for the GW SPARC program! Don't miss the chance to be mentored in @GWCancer Center research labs for 10 weeks with housing and a stipend provided.
Apply before February 2, 2025: bit.ly/3W8N8uq
ALT A researcher in a white lab coat examines a petri dish in a laboratory with GW SPARC logo on bottom right.
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
11 Dec 2024
Check out our new story! Mechanisms of innate and adaptive immune activation in cancer cells deficient in SMARCA4. Thank you to the multiple collaborators that made it possible. @neoviral @bengrbm @gonen_mithat @ChiappinelliLab science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
9 Oct 2024
Amazing representation by @cdmrp @OvCaAcademy
ECIs, alumni, mentors, and deans at 15th #HHMT meeting in Surrey, UK! @BuckanovichLab @ChiappinelliLab @DmitriyZamarin @DenardaD
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Kate Chiappinelli @chiappinellilab.bsky.social retweeted
22 Sep 2024
Was so inspired last night at the event hosted by @PowerOvarian. Old and new friends together for a great cause. @immunegirl thanks for including me. @ChiappinelliLab and Sarah Gitto, amazing fun! #advocacy #beatovariancancer 🩵🩵
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Please support our amazing medical student @JCastroArgueta as he runs 50 MILES (!) to fundraise for gynecologic cancers!
21 Sep 2024
The #Move4Her STEPtember challenge encourages activity during #GCAM. James Castro Argueta leads with a planned 5-mile D.C. monument run and a 50-mile goal beforehand!
Join James next weekend or get inspired by Move4Her participants across the country: ow.ly/ztjY50TseMJ
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Congratulations to Dr. Erin Grundy who did an amazing job on her dissertation defense today! Thanks to co-mentor Cath Bollard and all thesis committee members @GW_IBS @AlbertoBosqueP @RebeccaLynchLab
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Strong showing from the Chiappinelli Lab at the MITM Retreat 2024! PhD students Kevin Nestler and Trace Walker won 1st and 2nd place poster prizes!
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Granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor @GWSMHS, effective July 1. Many thanks to my mentors, collaborators, and colleagues, but most of all to the extraordinary Chiappinelli Lab members who worked so hard, together, through challenging times. Onward!
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Vote for Dan! He is an awesome scientist and person and has been such an important mentor to me over the past five years.
2 May 2024
Voting is now OPEN at SITC!
I’m running for an At-Large Director position to continue to serve - and now guide - this amazing Society forward. I’d appreciate your support! @sitcancer @sitcancerECS #CIWS #Sparkathon sitcancer.org/membership/202…
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