Congratulations to Dr. Steffi Oesterreich for being awarded the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring!! Well deserved! https://www.pittwire.pitt.edu/accolades-honors/2026/03/04/provosts-award-doctoral-mentoring
Match Day has arrived! Neil Carleton will be headed up to Brigham and Women’s/Harvard for Internal Medicine, Kanako Mori matched at UPMC Internal Medicine, and Fangyuan (Chelsea) Chen matched to Jacobi Medical Center in NYC.
Congratulations to Dr Neil Carleton for being awarded this year’s Hamilton Translational Science award from the MSTP program. (Curiously, Dr Nolan Priedigkeit MD PhD, another prior trainee from the Lee-Oesterreich lab, was the first awardee a few years back)”
At the PMWC conference, Adrian Lee, PhD, Director of the Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM), chaired the Clinical Utility of Liquid Biopsies track, leading a critical discussion on “Improving Sensitivity of MRD and MCED – Tumor-agnostic vs. Tumor-informed ctDNA Approaches.” Joining him on the panel was Marija Balic, MD, ScD, MBA, (UPMC Hillman Cancer Center) co-director of the Magee Women’s Cancer Program and clinical co-leader of the Women’s Cancer Research Center (WCRC). A leader in breast clinical science, she oversees Pitt and UPMC’s breast cancer program.
George Tseng received an R01CA285337 with MPI of Adrian and Steffi entitled “Single-cell congruence evaluation and selection of cancer models towards precision medicine”. This work will further the collaborative partnership where we are developing tools to enable precision medicine.
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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