Yadira Soto-Feliciano is a Howard S. (1953) and Linda B. Stern Career Development Professor at MIT. After earning a BS in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, she completed a PhD in Biology from MIT. There, working in the laboratory of Prof. Michael T. Hemann, her research focused on mouse models of leukemia with in vivo functional genomics approaches to study mechanisms of cell identity and lineage plasticity. Yadira then completed her postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Dr. David Allis, combining cancer biology and functional genomics with traditional chromatin biology and biochemistry. In 2022 she joined the MIT faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and an Intramural Member of the Koch Institute. Yadira is the recipient of the 2022 V Scholar Award and the 2023 AACR Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award and is also a scientific advisor for Scaffold Therapeutics. In her free time she loves to eat oysters and watch tennis!