Welcome to our new, integrative, postdoctoral training program in Cancer Chemical Biology and Metabolism (CCBM). Our 35 mentors span four Dana-Farber Cancer Institute departments (Cancer Biology, Cancer Immunology and Virology, Pediatric Oncology, Medical Oncology) to combine two synergistic and conceptually related research disciplines grounded in small molecule chemistry and biochemistry that are of growing importance for both basic and translational research.

Although iconic in Japanese history and culture, Musashi’s name and unique story became part of the scientific lexicon serendipitously. In the early 1990s, a group of scientists led by noted neurobiologist Craig Montell discovered a new gene, which, when mutated, led to a cell fate determination defect in sensory organ precursor cells.