Shannon Stott PhD

Shannon earned a BS (University of New Hampshire), MS (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and PhD (Georgia Tech) in Mechanical Engineering. The Stott laboratory at the MGH Center for Cancer is comprised of bioengineers and chemists who are focused on translating technological advances to relevant applications in clinical medicine. A former postdoctoral fellow in Mehmet Toner’s lab, Shannon has furthered her interests in using microfluidics and imaging technologies to create tools that increase understanding of cancer biology and of the metastatic process. In collaboration with the Toner, Haber and Maheswaran laboratories, the Stott lab has developed a microfluidic device that can isolate extraordinarily rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the blood of cancer patients. The lab is striving to employ new imaging modalities to extract as much information as possible from these rare cells while pushing the technology further for early cancer detection.