Anna C Obenauf I. Current Address Memorial Sloan Kettering

Anna C Obenauf I. Current Address Memorial Sloan Kettering

Anna C Obenauf
I. Current Address
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cancer Biology Group, Z-1345
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415E 68 Street, New York, NY, 10065
Phone: +1 646 888 2063, Mobile: +1 646 701 1652,
Email: obenaufa@mskcc.org; anna.obenauf@icloud.com
II. Education and professional employment
Winter 2015
Group Leader, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna,
Austria
2010-2015
Postdoctoral fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC),
New York, USA
Laboratory of Joan Massagué
2007-2010
Ph.D. program ‘Molecular Medicine’, Institute of Human Genetics, Medical
University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Laboratory of Michael R. Speicher
2006-2007
M.Sc. in Molecular Biology, Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria
2002-2006
B.Sc. in Microbiology, Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria
III. Scientific Keywords
Cancer biology
Metastasis
Therapy resistance
Tumor microenvironment
IV. 5 relevant publications
1. Obenauf AC, Ji AL, Zou YZ, Vanharanta S, Shu W, Shi H, Kong X, Bosenberg MC,
Wiesner T, Rosen N, Lo RS, Massague J. Therapy induced tumor secretomes promote
resistance and cancer progression. Nature. 2015 Apr 16;520(7547):368-72.
2. Valiente M, Obenauf AC, Jin X, Chen Q, Zhang XH, Lee DJ, Chaft JE, Kris MG, Huse
JT, Brogi E, Massagué J. Serpins promote cancer cell survival and vascular co-option in
brain metastasis. Cell. 2014 Feb 27;156(5):1002-16.
3. Bindea G, Mlecnik B, Tosolini M, Kirilovsky A, Waldner M, Obenauf AC, Angell H,
Fredriksen T, Lafontaine L, Berger A, Bruneval P, Fridman WH, Becker C, Pagès F,
Speicher MR, Trajanoski Z, Galon J. Spatiotemporal dynamics of intratumoral immune
cells reveal the immune landscape in human cancer. Immunity. 2013 Oct17;39(4):78295.
4. Wiesner T, Obenauf AC, Murali R, Fried I, Griewank KG, Ulz P, Windpassinger C,
Wackernagel W, Loy S, Wolf I, Viale A, Lash AE, Pirun M, Socci ND, Ruetten
A,Palmedo G, Abramson D, Offit K, Ott A, Becker JC, Cerroni L, Kutzner H, Bastian BC,
Speicher MR. Germline mutations in BAP1 predispose to melanocytic tumors. Nat
Genet. 2011 Aug 28;43(10):1018-21.
5. Obenauf AC, Schwarzbraun T, Hoffmann EM, Auer M, Duba HC, Speicher MR, Geigl
JB.
Mapping of balanced translocation breakpoints to the basepair level from
microdissected chromosomes. J Cell Mol Med. 2010 Jul 1 epub.
V. Selected awards, promotions and scientific activities
2014, 2015
Chair of the National NCI Tumor Microenvironment Network Meeting for
Junior Investigators NIH, Los Angeles, USA
2010-2012
Erwin-Schroedinger postdoctoral fellowship, FWF, Austrian Science Fund
2010
Award of excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and
Research