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Congratulations to Ross and Simona for winning one of the Best Trainee Talk awards (out of >200 talks) at the 2026 TRCCC (Translational Research Cancer Centers Consortium)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"\nSimona Bajgai and Rossymar Rivera won Best Trainee Talk awards! - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2026\/03\/05\/test\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Simona Bajgai and Rossymar Rivera won Best Trainee Talk awards! 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