Email: eeg2001@med.cornell.edu
Ph.D. John Hopkins University School of Medicine (2017)
Pharm.D. University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy (2011)
Postdoctoral Associate in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine (2018)
Eric received his PharmD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, graduating magna cum laude. He went on to receive his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine under the mentorship of physician-scientist Charlie Rudin. His thesis work focused on using patient-derived models of lung cancer to model genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of acquired resistance to therapies. He joined the Varmus lab for his post-doctoral work in 2018 and is the Kenneth G. and Elaine A. Langone Fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (DRG-2343-18).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Lineage-specific intolerance to oncogenic drivers restricts histological transformation.” Science. 2024
Eric E. Gardner, Ethan M. Earlie, Kate Li, Jerin Thomas, Melissa J. Hubisz, Benjamin D. Stein,Chen Zhang, Lewis C. Cantley, Ashley M. Laughney, Harold Varmus
“Generation of precision preclinical cancer models using regulated in vivo base editing”. Nature Biotechnology. 2023
Alyna Katti, Adrián Vega-Pérez, Miguel Foronda, Jill Zimmerman, Maria Paz Zafra, Elizabeth Granowsky, Sukanya Goswami, Eric E. Gardner, Bianca J. Diaz, Janelle M. Simon, Alexandra Wuest, Wei Luan, Maria Teresa Calvo Fernandez ,Anastasia P. Kadina, John A. Walker II, Kevin Holden, Scott W. Lowe, Francisco J. Sánchez Rivera & Lukas E. Dow.
“Transposon Mutagenesis Reveals RBMS3 Silencing as a Promoter of Malignant Progression of BRAFV600E-Driven Lung Tumorigenesis.” Cancer research. 2022
Aria Vaishnavi, Joseph Juan, Maebh Jacob, Christopher Stehn, Eric E. Gardner, Michael T. Scherzer, Sophia Schuman, J. Edward Van Veen, Brandon Murphy, Christopher S. Hackett, Adam J. Dupuy, Steven A. Chmura, Louise van der Weyden, Justin Y. Newberg, Annie Liu, Karen Mann, Alistair G. Rust, William A. Weiss, Conan G. Kinsey, David J. Adams, Allie Grossmann, Michael B. Mann, and Martin McMahon
