Thoracic Oncology Laboratory
UCSF Comprehsive Cancer Center
2340 Sutter St, Room S341
San Francisco, CA 94143-0128
CA 94115 (courier service)
415-502-0555 Phone
415-502-3179 Fax
Roshni.Ray@ucsf.edu

Roshni is involved with a number of projects in the lab. Her primary work is collecting tissue samples harvested by the UCSF Thoracic surgeons, amassing them as part of the laboratory's tumor tissue bank, and then cataloging their further clinical and research use in a state-of-the-art database. Thus far, her research focus in the lab has been on gene expression analysis in lung cancer, primarily using quantitative PCR techniques. She recently worked with surgical resident Dr. Dan Raz on a study identifying a multi-gene signature that may serve as a prognostic indicator of mortality in lung adenocarcinomas.

Although she has long been involved in scientific research, the path leading to Roshni's arrival in cancer research has been circuitous. While in high school she worked at the University of Rochester studying organic light-emitting diodes before leaving for college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study Materials Science/Engineering. At MIT, Roshni was involved in creating self-assembling DNA lattices and researching stem cell differentiation as it relates to tissue engineering.

She also interned at a San Diego agrobiotech firm interested in genetically modifiying crops and completed a six month internship with 3M Germany preparing adhesives for the European market. After MIT, she pursued further education in Chemistry/Chemical Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. In Berkeley, she studied protein crystallography in the laboratory of Dr. John Kuriyan and then spent a year as a Staff Researcher in Dr. Jay Keasling's synthetic biology lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Having spent several years on the periphery of medical research she leapt at the opportunity to join the Jablons lab, a translational medicine laboratory where discoveries can move from bench to bedside and scientists have the opportunity to see their labors take fruit in clinical settings.