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Inside Cancer Careers Podcast Features Amy Bouton, PhD
Amy Bouton, PhD, Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology and Ex Officio Past President of the Cancer Biology Training Consortium (CABTRAC), appeared on a recent episode of the NCI’s…
Dan Gioeli and Cancer Center Team Seek to Harness Wearable Devices to Tailor Medical Treatments
In a new scientific paper, Dan Gioeli, PhD and Philip I. Chow and collaborators, argue there is “strong but unrealized potential to harness people’s mobile sensing data to improve our…
Research in Motion: Kristin Anderson, PhD
My research is focused on modifying immune cells, specifically T cells, to recognize and kill cancer more effectively. Solid tumors like ovarian and pancreatic cancer present additional obstacles, so my…
Dave Kashatus, PhD, is leading the second Spark Innovation Competition, which is focused on improving the research environment. The Spark Innovation Competition seeks to empower individuals and teams to make…
Harish Narasimhan Awarded F31 Research Grant
Harish Narasimhan, MHS, a microbiology PhD candidate in the Jie Sun Lab, was awarded a $121,136 F31 grant to study age-associated features responsible for the development and maintenance of chronic pulmonary…
Dana May, a PhD candidate in the Sarah Ewald Lab wins award
Dana May was awarded a $141,141 R35 diversity supplement grant to further her studies of cachexia, or the inflammatory loss of lean body mass, which is a leading predictor of…
Chris Prevost is the 2nd MIC student to receive a grant from the Cancer Center!
Chris Prevost, also a graduate student in the Kashatus Lab, studies how cancer cell stress influences lipid droplet dynamics and how these lipid droplets originating due to the cell stress…
Salma Sharmin receives grant from Cancer Center!
Salma Sharmin is a graduate student in the Kashatus Lab studying how the GTPase, Dynamin-related protein 1 (DRP1), regulates mitochondrial fission and the subsequent impact on resistance of pancreatic tumor cells…
Research in Motion: Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD
"My laboratory works on two areas of RNA biology, both very important for human health. The first area is RNA viruses and the second area is autoimmune diseases and the…
Kristin Anderson, PhD, Earned K22 Transition Career Development Award
Kristin Anderson, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, earned a NIH Research Career Development (K) Award in the fourth quarter of FY23. K…