Roo St. Pierre

Roodolph St Pierre (Roo) was born and raised in Port au Prince, Haiti.  He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a Bachelor in Chemistry with Honors in 2011. During his undergraduate, Roo landed an internship at the Broad Institute in the lab of Dr. Stuart Schreiber where he gained a foundational introduction to structural biology. Following graduation, Roo transitioned to the lab of Dr. James Bradner at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute where he applied his structural biology toolkit to the art of cancer drug discovery. Now in the lab of Dr. Cigall Kadoch at Harvard, he is investigating the implication of SMARCE1 in the genesis of meningioma, which represents a third of all tumors that arise within the central nervous system. Beyond the lab, Roo serves as a mentor and advisory member to the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center CURE program to expose a greater number of under-represented High School and College students to cancer research. On campus, Roo is the co-president of MBSH, a student group dedicated to fostering an environment conducive to the promotion of minority groups within academia.