Sarah Perlee

Life Science Program Manager @PershingSqFdn | PhD @whitefishlab @MSKCancerCenter

[Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance @psscra]

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: https://t.co/zlCLeuRFGv

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

@JayantYGadrey6 @HannahUckelmann @BrunettiLab @BloodPortfolio Congrats Jay and Hannah!!

[MIND Prize @MindPrize]

Congratulations again to the eight winners of our 2026 MIND Prize! 🎉

Learn more about these scientists and their innovative projects here: https://t.co/pwrYdFSi4m

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

🧬 August’s most-read #genetics paper shows how a new zebrafish tool (mitfa:Cas9) can reveal the genes driving melanocyte and melanoma development: https://t.co/xtMclwwaUf #CRISPR

Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: https://t.co/ZJpcIXNkah

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

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.
https://t.co/r84CzqrVL3

[richard white @whitefishlab]

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: https://t.co/Y1duw8cgRV

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

Huge thank you to my mentor @whitefishlab and all of our wonderful collaborators!

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

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: https://t.co/bnwVAasq8E

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

@MaggieChasse Thanks Maggie!! Had some great times at those conferences!

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

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

[richard white @whitefishlab]

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!

[Yi Feng @YiFeng_Fishlab]

📣 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👇 https://t.co/k38IsPeXjo

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

@whitefishlab Thanks Rich!!

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

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!

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

@MohitaTagore @NCICancerBio @whitefishlab Congrats Mohita!

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

@CutlerJevon @theNCI Congrats Jevon!!

[richard white @whitefishlab]

Our new paper on electrical signalling between skin cells in #melanoma is out at @CD_AACR – check it out! https://t.co/lywOwvMDHx. Before I get to the science, I want to highlight some really special things about @MohitaTagore, and how her innate curiosity made it happen.

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

Phenomenal paper by an incredibly talented postdoc! I learned so much from working with @MohitaTagore on this project.

[Dr. Mohita Tagore @MohitaTagore]

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.

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

@JayantYGadrey6 Thanks Jay!

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

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

https://t.co/WmeXYb7YL0

[Sarah Perlee @SarahPerlee]

@MohitaTagore Thanks so much Mohita!