In the three-minute thesis competition at the School of Medicine, Abdalla won first place tied with another student as “People’s Choice (voting from people who attended the competition) and second place from the judges!
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Graduate student Abdalla Wedn has been chosen to receive an ASPET Young Scientist Travel Award to attend the 19th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. The meeting is scheduled to take place July 2-7, 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Congrats to Dr. Steffi Oesterreich for winning the 2022 Theresa’s Leadership Award in Basic Science!
Dr. Oesterreich was awarded the 2022 Theresa’s Leadership Award in Basic Science from Theresa’s Research Foundation at this years MBCRC conference. Thanks to all in the lab and alumni for making this happen.
Kai Ding was awarded his Ph.D. after defending his dissertation “Multi-omics profiling of breast cancer metastases to identify drivers and mechanisms of endocrine resistance for precision medicine”
Congratulations to Adrian and Steffi who were invited to attend the 2022 Pitt Faculty Honors Convocation Ceremony and received medals recognizing their distinguished accomplishments. Adrian received his medal for his position as the Pittsburgh Foundation Endowed Chair in Precision Medicine. Steffi received her medal for her position as the Shear Family Endowed Chair in Breast Cancer Research.
Ashuvinee Elangovan, Ph.D. successfully convinced her committee that her project entitled “Loss of E-Cadherin Activates a Targetable IF1R Pathway in Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer” is worthy of a Philosophiae Doctor! Cheers to Ashu!!
