Insa presented her poster “CDH1 Loss Drives Tumor Immune Microenvironment Remodeling and Metabolic Reprogramming in a Syngeneic ER+ ILC-like Model” at the Pitt Postdoc Research Symposium and won the professional development award for best poster presentation.
Abdalla Wedn was awarded his Ph.D. after defending his dissertation entitled “Epigenetic Upregulation of TFAP2B Drives Cell Proliferation and Tumor Growth in Invasive Lobular Breast Carcinoma”!
Congrats to Brent Schlegel, who won first prize in the Young Scientist Excellence Award competition at the 2026 Mid-South Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) conference, held at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. Brent was selected from a pool of 150 competitors, presenting his work on multi-omic profiling of patient-derived breast cancer organoids.
Congrats to Lauren Grove who presented her research and was selected to receive the Mary Baker Marks Fellowship by Dr. Stanley Marks and Dr. John Byrd. This fellowship is awarded to second year students in the Oncology Graduate Program.
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.
Drs. Steffi Oesterreich and Adrian Lee discussing reviewers’ comments from ‘Tamoxifen-bound estrogen receptor (ER) strongly interacts with the nuclear matrix protein HET/SAF-B, a novel inhibitor of ER-mediated transactivation. Oesterreich S, Zhang Q, Hopp T, Fuqua SA, Michaelis M, Zhao HH, Davie JR, Osborne CK, Lee AV. Mol Endocrinol. 2000 Mar;14(3):369-81. doi: 10.1210/mend.14.3.0432.PMID: 10707955.
This is taken in 1999 in our lab when we first started in Dr. Oesterreich’s office as Junior Faculty – in the middle of a lab.
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)”
The Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk in Pittsburgh was a great success! A sunny day with thousands of attendees. Thanks to all of the organizers and sponsors. Our team – the Magee-Hillman Breast Cancer Warriors was one of the top fundraisers. We were happy to see Natera sponsoring the event; Their booth was always busy! We spent most of the time at the Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC booth which was never quiet.
