Life Science Program Manager @PershingSqFdn | PhD @whitefishlab @MSKCancerCenter
Joined October 2012
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
This final week of both Women’s Health and Cancer Research Month, we’re thrilled to announce our 2026 Lotus Award recipients: 8 exceptional scientists whose work is transforming the future of ovarian cancer research. Please join us in congratulating: pershingsquarephilanthropies…
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
Mar 10
Congratulations again to the eight winners of our 2026 MIND Prize! 🎉
Learn more about these scientists and their innovative projects here: pershingsquarephilanthropies…
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
17 Sep 2025
🧬 August’s most-read #genetics paper shows how a new zebrafish tool (mitfa:Cas9) can reveal the genes driving melanocyte and melanoma development: elifesciences.org/articles/1… #CRISPR
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: elifesciences.org/about/aims…
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
6 Sep 2025
How do genes that keep melanocytes alive affect #melanoma?
Using a #zebrafish line with mitfa-driven Cas9, researchers show that knocking out survival genes can sometimes fuel more aggressive tumour traits.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-p…
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
4 Sep 2025
Now out in @elife, @SarahPerlee’s Ph.D. work developing a powerful way to knock genes out in #melanocytes and #melanoma cells. She created #zebrafish that allow for efficient CRISPR editing, and found unexpected things about genes required for these cells to thrive: elifesciences.org/articles/1…
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2 Sep 2025
Excited to share my PhD work, now out in @eLife! 🐟
We developed a mitfa:Cas9 knock-in zebrafish line for lineage-specific genome editing, enabling in vivo screening for gene function in melanocytes and melanoma cells. Read more here: elifesciences.org/articles/1…
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17 Aug 2024
Thanks to everyone who made this PhD possible! So grateful for my amazing mentor @whitefishlab, committee members, and the entire White lab for all their support these past 5 years! #PhDone
16 Aug 2024
My last @GSKGradSchool student @SarahPerlee defending her Ph.D. with a tour de force of genetics and zebrafish. A perfect defense, joined by so many of her friends and family members!
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
19 May 2024
📣 2024 @ZDMSociety Cancer RIG meet up Webinars! Four ECR rising stars @SarahPerlee Tracy Jolly, @XiaodanQi, Clay Foster, four cutting edge Zebrafish cancer models. Free for members, $25 for RIG Webinars of all topics in 2024👇 zdmsociety.org/2024-zdms-rig…
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9 Nov 2023
Thrilled to have been able to share my work at #SMR23 this year. Truly an amazing experience engaging with such inspiring scientists. And huge thank you to @SocietyMelanoma for the travel award to attend this conference!
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
10 Aug 2023
Our new paper on electrical signalling between skin cells in #melanoma is out at @CD_AACR – check it out! bit.ly/45qjd37. Before I get to the science, I want to highlight some really special things about @MohitaTagore, and how her innate curiosity made it happen.
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10 Aug 2023
Phenomenal paper by an incredibly talented postdoc! I learned so much from working with @MohitaTagore on this project.
9 Aug 2023
Delighted to share that my postdoctoral work is now online @CD_AACR Here we show a novel form of electrical activity based cell-cell communication in the melanoma microenvironment, and identify GABA as the mediator of this communication.
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3 Aug 2023
So excited to share my first first-author paper!!
Here we dive deeper into how SETD1A functions in leukemia cells and identify two novel binding partners, BuGZ and BUB3. @emboreports
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23 Jun 2023
Grateful beyond words for the incredible support and guidance I received from my PhD mentor @whitefishlab and previous mentors @Armstrong_dfci @thali_lab among many others in helping me secure the F31 award! So excited to continue my research journey with this funding.
22 Jun 2023
It's always nice when someone smart, creative and kind gets good news - congrats to @SarahPerlee for her F31 award from the @theNCI! Despite a pandemic, a lab move and project evolution, she stuck with it all the way. She's an amazing geneticist who truly deserves this!
ALT in homage to @YilunMa_, rest assured this image was created with AI.
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
15 Mar 2023
Do you like development, regeneration, cancer? If so, come join us for a postdoc @Oxford. A love of #zebrafish helps, but we also like human #iPS cells. You can come and work on pretty much whatever you find interesting. Send me a message if interested.
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
30 Nov 2022
SETD1A regulates transcriptional pause release of heme biosynthesis genes in leukemia dlvr.it/SddtTd
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
19 Oct 2022
Great return to @SocietyMelanoma with many of my @MSKCancerCenter lab members. Check out posters from @mrndhntr @RichardHuang316 @SarahPerlee @shruthy_suresh @YilunMa_ @Eleanor_M_Johns @Joshua_M_Weiss. Spatial mechanics, anatomy, epigenetics, TME, lipids, metastasis in #zebrafish
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19 Oct 2022
So happy to be presenting my work in Scotland at #SMR2022! Even better that I get to share this experience with so many @whitefishlab members and alumni.
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9 May 2022
Very excited to see this work published! Congrats to @CutlerJevon, @BrandonJAubrey, and @Bourgeois_Wa for leading this phenomenal study. So glad to have been a part of this and I can't wait to see what's to come from @Armstrong_dfci.
9 May 2022
💫ONLINE NOW @NatureCancer “IKAROS and MENIN coordinate therapeutically actionable leukemogenic gene expression in MLL-r acute myeloid leukemia” @Armstrong_dfci by & Co. #Therapy
Read it here👇
rdcu.be/cNbJL
go.nature.com/3yjERJ0
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Sarah Perlee retweeted
Zebrafish are commonly found in aquariums. But the researchers in @whitefishlab at the Sloan Kettering Institute study them to discover where cancer starts and how it spreads. Learn more about their latest research: bit.ly/3Nte2Y1
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