• Dr. Adrian Lee interviewed on the “Do-Goodery Podcast: The Cancer Episode”! - Dr. Adrian Lee was recently interviewed for the “Do-Goodery Podcast: The Cancer Episode” to, as described by their website, “discuss what a jerk Cancer is.…
• Dr. Oesterreich discusses ILC at NWMBCC in Seattle - Steffi meets with members of LBCA advocacy group (https://lobularbreastcancer.org/), and discusses progress and challenges for ILC research at the Northwest Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference (NWMBCC).…
• Kevin Levine will be defending his dissertation on Dec. 3rd! -
• Congratulations to Dr. Nilgun Tasdemir on her Excellence in Research Travel Award! - Congrats to Nilgun Tasdemir for the Excellence in Research Travel Award she received from the Endocrine Society at the 8th Great Lakes Nuclear Receptor Conference (GLNRC) held at…
• New Publication! “Loss of E-cadherin Enhances IGF1–IGF1R Pathway Activation and Sensitizes Breast Cancers to Anti-IGF1R/InsR Inhibitors” - Loss of E-cadherin Enhances IGF1–IGF1R Pathway Activation and Sensitizes Breast Cancers to Anti-IGF1R/InsR Inhibitors We provide evidence that loss of E-cadherin hyperactivates the IGF1R pathway…
• Congratulations to Nilgun on her SABCS Scholarship! - Congratulations to Dr. Nilgun Tasdemir on receiving the SABCS 2018 AACR Associate Member Award.
• Pittsburgh Steelers support metastatic breast cancer research! - Thanks to Alan Faneca, David Decastro and other Pittsburgh Steelers for supporting research on metastatic breast cancer! Adrian and Steffi attended the Bid for Hope event,…
• Drs. Adrian Lee and Steffi Oesterreich received the 2018 PNC Elsie Hillman Distinguished Scholar Award! - Congratulations to Drs. Adrian Lee and Steffi Oesterreich on receiving the 2018 PNC Elsie Hillman Distinguished Scholar Award.  The award was announced at this year’s…
• BGSA Symposium featuring Dr. Adrian Lee for the Distinguished Mentor Award! -
• New publication! “Comprehensive phenotypic characterization of human invasive lobular carcinoma cell lines in 2D and 3D cultures”! - Congratulation Dr. Nilgun Tasdemir and coauthors for their new publication generating an invaluable resource for lobular breast cancer research. Comprehensive characterization of ILC models.
• New publication! “Key regulators of lipid metabolism drive endocrine resistance in invasive lobular breast cancer” - Our latest paper focused on lobular breast cancer is now available. Role for SREBP1 and other regulators of fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis in invasive…
• Dr. Lee and Dr. Oesterreich receive the Susan G. Komen Greater Pennsylvania Terri L. Chapman Award! -
• Lab retreat at Pymatuning Reservoir (and Kevin’s birthday) -
• Congratulations to Nadine Ryan! - Nadine Ryan won the “Ronald B. Herberman Staff Appreciation Award.”
• New publication! “Circulating Tumor Cell Phenotyping via High-Throughput Acoustic Separation.” - Small. 2018 Aug;14(32):e1801131. doi: 10.1002/smll.201801131. Epub 2018 Jul 3. Circulating Tumor Cell Phenotyping via High-Throughput Acoustic Separation. Wu M1, Huang PH1, Zhang R2, Mao Z2, Chen C1, Kemeny G3, Li P4, Lee AV5, Gyanchandani…