#  Megan Insco 

Assistant Professor of Medicine

 

 

 



   ![Insco](/sites/g/files/omnuum5321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-11/Untitled%201.jpg?itok=W0ho7X4j) 

 



 

 smartphone [857-215-1818](tel:857-215-1818) 

 email [Megan\_Insco@dfci.harvard.edu](mailto:Megan_Insco@dfci.harvard.edu) 

 laptop\_windows [Lab Website](https://inscolab.dana-farber.org/) 

 laptop\_windows [Publications](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/megan.insco.2/bibliography/public/) 

 

Dana Farber Cancer Institute  
Dana Building - 1432C  
44 Binney Street  
Boston MA, 02215

 

 



 

The Insco Lab investigates how aberrant RNA and defects in nuclear RNA surveillance drive oncogenesis, with an emphasis on melanoma. We use zebrafish models, patient datasets, and mechanistic assays in human melanoma cell lines to define clinically relevant mechanisms of aberrant RNA-mediated oncogenesis, in order to identify new therapeutic strategies for patients with high-risk melanoma.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Program Affiliation
    
     [Leder Human Biology](/bbs-faculty/leder-human-biology)
- ## Discipline
    
     [Biochemistry](/discipline/biochemistry) [Genetics](/discipline/genetics) [Molecular Biology](/discipline/molecular-biology)
- ## Organism
    
     [Human](/organism/human) [Zebrafish](/organism/zebrafish)
- ## People
    
     [Faculty](/people/faculty)
- ## Location
    
     [Dana Farber Cancer Institute](/location/dana-farber-cancer-institute)